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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View looking west on Second Street from Spring Street, Los Angeles, ca.1886
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View looking west on Second Street from Spring Street, Los Angeles, ca.1886

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Photograph of the view looking west on Second Street from Spring Street, Los Angeles, ca.1886. A street car is moving down Second Street as a pedestrian crosses the intersection. City Hall (1884-1888) is on the right, a site later used for the Fire Department and Police Station; this building was sold to I.W. Hellman in March 26, 1895, but the City was allowed to continue usage of the structure for jail purposes until the completion of the 3rd City Jail on First Street, between Hill Street and Broadway, in late 1896. The Hollenbeck Hotel dominates the left side of the street (as it looked before the 3rd and 4th floors were added in 1888), beyond which the steeple of First Presbyterian Church is visible. A few horse-drawn vehicles are on Second Street. Legible signs include: "B.F. Coulter, proprietor of the".... 
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Title View looking west on Second Street from Spring Street, Los Angeles, ca.1886 
Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer) 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1886 
Subject B.F. Coulters  (subject), buildings  (lcsh), Churches  (lcsh), First Presbyterian Church  (subject), Hollenbeck Hotel  (subject), roadways  (adlf), Streets  (lcsh) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place 2nd Street & Spring Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1886 
Type images
Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 25 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) 
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. (c) 11-26-24 Pierce 
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. (c) 11-26-24 Pierce 
Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given 
Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m501 
Identifier 2865 (accession number), CHS-2865 (call number), CHS-2865 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25454 (legacy record id), chs-m501 (legacy record id), 1-120-8 (microfiche number), USC (project) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 25454 
Unique identifier UC128433 
Legacy Identifier CHS-2865.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 13.3 in × 16.7 in at 300dpi
33.8 cm × 42.4 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 
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