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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Pacific Electric Building on the corner of Main Street and Sixth Street, ca.1905-1909
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Pacific Electric Building on the corner of Main Street and Sixth Street, ca.1905-1909
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Description
Photograph of the Pacific Electric Building (or the Huntington Building) on the corner of Main Street and Sixth Street, ca.1905-1909. An electric streetcar takes on passengers in front of the blocky eight-story building. Streetcar rails and electric lines crisscross in the foreground. Legible signs include: "Chino Ranch", "Cudahy Ranch", "Scandia Land & Loan Co.", "The American Drug Co.", streetcar "307 Pacific Electric 307", "Pacific Light and Power Company", "Amalgamated Oil Company", "Associated Oil Company", "W.M. Garland & Co., real estate", "S.J. White & Co., real estate", "Eastern"....
Asset Metadata
Title
Pacific Electric Building on the corner of Main Street and Sixth Street, ca.1905-1909
Subject
buildings
(subject),
Electric railroads
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- 6th Street #2
(file heading),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Main Street -- South of 6th
(file heading),
Main Street
(subject),
Pacific Electric Railroad Building
(subject),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Main Street & 6th Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1905/1909
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1905/1909
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-m652
Identifier
2363 (
accession number
), CHS-2363 (
call number
), CHS-2363 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-6055 (
legacy record id
), chs-m652 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-653 (
legacy record id
), 1-3-75 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
6055
Unique identifier
UC127981
Legacy Identifier
CHS-2363.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
14.5 in × 18.4 in at 300dpi
36.9 cm × 46.9 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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