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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Main Street and 4th Street, 1903-1905
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Main Street and 4th Street, 1903-1905
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Description
Photograph of the Main Street looking north from Fourth Street, 1903-1905. The Van Nuys and Westminster Hotels are visible. An electric streetcar "Monrovia, 203" approaches the camera. The street is filled with groups of pedestrians and horse-drawn wagons and carriages. Legible signs include: "Van Nuys", "Oysters, the Morgan Oyster Co., packers", ..."fish & lobsters"..., "For ce[...] [...]s property", "Fruits", ..."erators [...] store", ..."lawn [...]drooms, rent rooms", ..."house".
Asset Metadata
Title
Main Street and 4th Street, 1903-1905
Subject
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Main Street -- Temple to 4th
(file heading),
Main Street
(subject),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh),
Transportation
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Main Street & 4th Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1903/1905
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photoprint, b&w ; 25 x 20 cm.; 2 photographs : photoprint, glass photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm., 22 x 17 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
photographic prints
(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
1903/1905
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-m619
Identifier
1875 (
accession number
), CHS-1875 (
call number
), CHS-1875 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-6025 (
legacy record id
), chs-m619 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-620 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
), 1-6-70 (
unidentified no.
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
6025
Unique identifier
UC127974
Legacy Identifier
CHS-1875.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
14.4 in × 18.9 in at 300dpi
36.6 cm × 48.0 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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