California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

View of Pershing Square looking southeast from the present site of the Biltmore Hotel, showing houses near the park, ca.1883

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View of Pershing Square looking southeast from the present site of the Biltmore Hotel, showing houses near the park, ca.1883

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Photograph of a view of Pershing Square looking southeast from the present site of the Biltmore Hotel, showing houses near the park, ca.1883. Trees line the perimeter of the rectangular Pershing Square at center. Dark paths cut through the grassy park where many trees stand spread out across the field. Streets on all sides separate the park from the residential communities in the foreground and in the background on the left. A second field blanketed in neat rows of trees stands in the background on the far right.

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Title View of Pershing Square looking southeast from the present site of the Biltmore Hotel, showing houses near the park, ca.1883

Subject Los Angeles (Los Angeles) -- Parks (subject), Parks (lcsh), Parks (adlf), Pershing Square (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Sixth Street & Hill Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1883

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1883

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m23495

Identifier 48108 (accession number), CHS-48108 (call number), CHS-48108 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-21716 (legacy record id), chs-m23495 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 21716

Unique identifier UC127133

Legacy Identifier CHS-48108.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 23.3 in × 19.4 in at 300dpi
59.3 cm × 49.4 cm at 300dpi

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Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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