An aerial view of Beverly Hills Racetrack, Santa Monica Boulevard and Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, ca.1921

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Photograph of an aerial view of Beverly Hills Racetrack, Santa Monica Boulevard and Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, ca.1921. A thick line of trees seperate the tracks from the small but spread out community just north of the tracks. South of the tracks is an oilfield. Mountains are visible in the distance. The wings of the airplane from which the aerial shot was taken from is visible in the foreground.

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Title An aerial view of Beverly Hills Racetrack, Santa Monica Boulevard and Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, ca.1921

Subject Los Angeles County -- Beverly Hills -- General (file heading), Racetracks (Automobile racing) (lcsh), sports facilities (adlf), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Beverly Hills (city or populated place), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Santa Monica Boulevard (roadway), USA (countries), Wilshire Boulevard (roadway)

Temporal Subject 1921

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, 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 1921

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5393

Identifier 8581 (accession number), CHS-8581 (call number), CHS-8581 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25918 (legacy record id), chs-m5393 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5506 (legacy record id), 1-12-45 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25918

Unique identifier UC129323

Legacy Identifier CHS-8581.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

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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