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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Farmers Bank and Merchants Bank on the west side of Main Street, north of the Downey Block, ca.1880
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Farmers Bank and Merchants Bank on the west side of Main Street, north of the Downey Block, ca.1880
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Description
Photograph of the Farmers Bank and Merchants Bank on the west side of Main Street, north of the Downey Block, ca.1880. In the foreground, there are horse drawn carriages parked on a street in fronted of a row of awninged buildings. In the background, there is a very large four story building with a flat roof and a spire on top. In between the foreground and the background are several blocks of anonymous buildings in which two large signs are visible, one advertising a "Photographic Gallery" and the other with the words "City or Paris Dry Goods Fancy Goods". Previous record entry reads: "See USC-1-1-1-601 for complete view".
Asset Metadata
Title
Farmers Bank and Merchants Bank on the west side of Main Street, north of the Downey Block, ca.1880
Subject
Banks and banking
(lcsh),
buildings
(adlf),
Farmers and Merchants Bank
(subject),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Main Street -- North of Temple
(file heading),
Photography -- Studios and darkrooms
(lcsh),
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
1880
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 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
1880
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-m592
Identifier
9786 (
accession number
), CHS-9786 (
call number
), CHS-9786 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-25540 (
legacy record id
), chs-m592 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-593 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
25540
Unique identifier
UC129004
Legacy Identifier
CHS-9786.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
14.0 in × 17.1 in at 300dpi
35.5 cm × 43.4 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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