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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Exterior view of the Marsh-Strong Building on the southwest corner of Ninth Street and Main Street, 1912
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Exterior view of the Marsh-Strong Building on the southwest corner of Ninth Street and Main Street, 1912
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Description
Photograph of the Marsh-Strong Building (later the Rives-Strong Building) on the southwest corner of Ninth Street and Main Street, 1912. Two policemen stand in the intersection of the two streets, facing the Victorian-style Marsh-Strong Building, which is covered with advertising signs. Other commercial buildings line the streets to either side of it, the Hotel Rose visible to the right. Streetcar rails make a lattice through the street.; Legible signs from left to right include: "Furniture Co.", "Rooms 25 [...] and Up / Entrance [...]", "L.C. Skeels Furniture Store", "Quality Sell[...] Export", "Tinners", "National Percolator Co.", "Emil Browning Co. Sheet Metal Workers. Metal Frames [...]", "Tin Shop", "Automobile Sheet Metal Work", "We Make Hoods and Fenders", "Home Furniture", "Red Cross Dentists", "Painless Dentist", "Open Evenings and Sunday Mornings", "Harmond-Lowe Cigar Co.", "Henkle-Farley Electric & Supply Co.", "Mark Hopkins", "Restaurant", "Tamales", "Waffles", "Agency Yale Motorcycles", "Signs / We Paint Your [...]", and "Power Off".
Asset Metadata
Title
Exterior view of the Marsh-Strong Building on the southwest corner of Ninth Street and Main Street, 1912
Subject
buildings
(adlf),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Main Street -- South of 6th
(file heading),
Marsh-Strong
(subject),
Retail trade
(lcsh),
Rives-Strong
(subject),
Signs and signboards
(lcsh),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Main Street & 9th Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1912
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 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
1912
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-m650
Identifier
7379 (
accession number
), CHS-7379 (
call number
), CHS-7379 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-6053 (
legacy record id
), chs-m650 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-651 (
legacy record id
), 1-6-105 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
6053
Unique identifier
UC128444
Legacy Identifier
CHS-7379.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.0 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 33.0 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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