California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Aerial view of Beverly Hills, with Sunset Boulevard in the background, ca.1918

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Aerial view of Beverly Hills, with Sunset Boulevard in the background, ca.1918

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Photograph of an aerial view of Beverly Hills, with Sunset Boulevard in the background, ca.1918. All of the streets in this wealthy residential neighborhood are lined with trees and intersect at unusual angles. The few visible houses are widely spaced, are all large, and all have exquisitely landscaped yards. Canon Drive is visible in the foreground, marked by a large round building. The residence of Tom May is visible along this road.

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Title Aerial view of Beverly Hills, with Sunset Boulevard in the background, ca.1918

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1918

Subject Dwellings (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Beverly Hills -- General (file heading), May, Tom (subject), residential sites (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Beverly Hills (city or populated place), California (states), Canon Drive (roadway), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1918

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 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)

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5402

Identifier 9901 (accession number), CHS-9901 (call number), CHS-9901 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25927 (legacy record id), chs-m5402 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5515 (legacy record id), 1-25-27 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25927

Unique identifier UC129731

Legacy Identifier CHS-9901.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.7 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
42.5 cm × 34.4 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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