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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View looking north along Main Street near the Plaza, Los Angeles, ca.1881
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View looking north along Main Street near the Plaza, Los Angeles, ca.1881
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Description
Photograph of a view looking north along Main Street near the Plaza, Los Angeles, ca.1881. A three-story brick building stands in the left foreground along the unpaved street advertising "Russian Electric Baths" and features bay windows on the second floor as well as an overhang that shades the sidewalk in front of it. A second, similarly-constructed building stands farther in the background down the road and features gingerbread trim. Hills can be seen in the distance. Legible signs include: "Shaving 15¢", "Shampooing 25¢", "Hair Cutting 25¢", "Hair Work", "15 Russian Steam and Electric Baths", "Other Medicated Baths", and "Mrs. Huck's Dressmaker / Modes de Paris". Picture file card reads: "Russian Baths owned by Robert Hughs. This picture from Cal Grayson with G.W. Dickinson and Son 729 Reeves(?) Boulevard.".
Asset Metadata
Title
View looking north along Main Street near the Plaza, Los Angeles, ca.1881
Subject
Baths, Public
(lcsh),
Baths, Russian
(lcsh),
Hughs, Robert
(subject),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Main Street -- North of Temple
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf),
Russian Baths
(subject),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Main Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1876/1886
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
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
1876/1886
Contributor
G.W. Dickinson and Son
(donor),
Grayson, Cal
(donor)
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m598
Identifier
7988 (
accession number
), CHS-7988 (
call number
), CHS-7988 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-25546 (
legacy record id
), chs-m598 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-599 (
legacy record id
), 1-6-37 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
25546
Unique identifier
UC129029
Legacy Identifier
CHS-7988.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.6 in × 12.3 in at 300dpi
47.4 cm × 31.3 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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