California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Birdseye view of the intersection of Garfield Street and Main Street during the the construction of the Professional Building in Alhambra, 1923

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Birdseye view of the intersection of Garfield Street and Main Street during the the construction of the Professional Building in Alhambra, 1923

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Photograph of a birdseye view of the intersection of Garfield Street and Main Street during the the construction of the Professional Building in Alhambra, 1923. A wide, unpaved road is pictured diminishing in the distance to the left from the bottom right edge of the image, lined to either side by parked automobiles and two- to four-story commercial buildings. Stacks of lumber can be seen in front of a cleared lot at right.; Legible signs from left to right reads: "Cafe", "Piggly Wiggly. [...] the World", "Hardware", "Almans Paint [...]", "Drugs", "S.D.R. Furn[iture]", "Garnet's Hardware", "Central Drug Co.", "For Lease", "Jon French", and "J.S. Metzger & Son".

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Title Birdseye view of the intersection of Garfield Street and Main Street during the the construction of the Professional Building in Alhambra, 1923

Subject Los Angeles County -- Alhambra -- Streets (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Alhambra (city or populated place), California (states), Garfield Street & Main Street (roadway), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1923

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 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)

Date Created 1923

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-m5071

Identifier 12712 (accession number), CHS-12712 (call number), CHS-12712 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25618 (legacy record id), chs-m5071 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-5173 (legacy record id), 1-24- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25618

Unique identifier UC129044

Legacy Identifier CHS-12712.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.3 in × 12.7 in at 300dpi
44.0 cm × 32.3 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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