California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Santa Rosa Avenue in Altadena, showing automobiles, 1925

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View of Santa Rosa Avenue in Altadena, showing automobiles, 1925

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Photograph of a view of Santa Rosa Avenue in Altadena, showing automobiles, 1925. The single lane of the paved road cuts through two rows of tall deodar trees, which are decorated with lights for the entire length of the road during winter holidays, giving the street the nickname "Christmas Tree Lane". Two early automobiles are immediately apparent a short way up the road, while a longer line of cars can be seen hazily, closer to the horizon.

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Title View of Santa Rosa Avenue in Altadena, showing automobiles, 1925

Subject Botany -- Trees -- Evergreen (file heading), Christmas decorations (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Altadena -- General (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Trees (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Altadena (city or populated place), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Santa Rosa Avenue (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1925-01-01

Type images

Format 2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat), transparencies (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 1925-01-01

Creator 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-m5082

Identifier 9108 (accession number), CHS-9108 (call number), CHS-9108 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25629 (legacy record id), chs-m5082 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5184 (legacy record id), 1-66- (microfiche number), 1-82-219 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25629

Unique identifier UC129154

Legacy Identifier CHS-9108.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.4 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
51.8 cm × 41.3 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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