California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Aerial view looking south on the Beverly Hills Hotel, ca.1918

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Aerial view looking south on the Beverly Hills Hotel, ca.1918

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Photograph of an aerial view looking south on the Beverly Hills Hotel, ca.1918. The hotel is in the foreground at the center, its t-shaped main building surrounded by trees. There are two tennis courts as well as many smaller buildings on the hotel grounds as well. Behind the hotel, the residential section of Beverly Hills can be seen, identified by windy, tree-lined streets with mansions spaced far apart from one another.

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Title Aerial view looking south on the Beverly Hills Hotel, ca.1918

Subject Beverly Hills Hotel (subject), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Beverly Hills -- General (file heading), residential sites (adlf), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1918

Type images

Format 4 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1918

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-m5429

Identifier 9903 (accession number), CHS-9903 (call number), CHS-9903 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25953 (legacy record id), chs-m5429 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5542 (legacy record id), 1-25-29 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25953

Unique identifier UC130003

Legacy Identifier CHS-9903.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 35.1 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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