Lithograph of a drawings of three Los Angeles buildings, including Hellman & Bro., Abel Stearns, and Don Lorenzo, ca.1870

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Photograph of a lithograph of a drawing of three Los Angeles buildings, including Hellman & Bro., Abel Stearns, and Don Lorenzo, 1870. By Kuchel and Dresel. Detail from a lithograph (photograph CHS-5308) depicting 21 historic Los Angeles buildings. Lithograph is ca.1857.; Depicted at top is Hellman & Brothers books, stationery, and cigar store. A man and woman in the dirt street gesture toward the store. Another man walks by at right, while a third man leans against a post in front of the store. A few customers are visible inside. A sign above the store reads, "Hellman & Bro. Books, Stationary, and Cigars".; Depicted at center is one-story adobe home belonging to Abel Stearns, North Main Street, at the site of Baker Block. Note the lamp post said to be the first in Los Angeles. Eight people and a horse-drawn carriage are also present in front of the building.; Depicted at bottom is the dwelling of Don Lorenzo. A woman can be seen greeting a man at the open door of the one-story house as three pedestrians walk by. A picket fence lines the sidewalk.

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Title Lithograph of a drawings of three Los Angeles buildings, including Hellman & Bro., Abel Stearns, and Don Lorenzo, ca.1870

Subject Adobe houses (lcsh), Bookstores (lcsh), commercial sites (adlf), Hellman (subject), Hellman & Brothers (subject), Lorenzo, Don (subject), Los Angeles -- General views -- Illustrations (2 of 2) (file heading), Los Angeles -- Sonora Town -- Architecture -- Commercial (file heading), Retail trade (lcsh), Sonora Town (subject), Stearns, Abel (subject), Stores & Shops (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1857, 1870

Type images

Format 1 microfilm frame : negative, b&w ; 35 mm.; 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), microfilms (aat), photographic prints (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 1870

Creator Kuchel and Dresel (engraver), Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m4894

Identifier 4461 (accession number), CHS-4461 (call number), CHS-4461 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25352 (legacy record id), chs-m4894 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-4992 (legacy record id), 1-15-51 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25352

Unique identifier UC128776

Legacy Identifier CHS-4461.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 2.6 in × 5.4 in at 300dpi
6.8 cm × 13.8 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

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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