California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

View of the intersection of Fair Oaks Avenue and Colorado Boulevard looking south from Union Street, Pasadena, ca.1910

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View of the intersection of Fair Oaks Avenue and Colorado Boulevard looking south from Union Street, Pasadena, ca.1910

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Photograph of a view of the intersection of Fair Oaks Avenue and Colorado Boulevard looking south from Union Street, Pasadena, ca.1910. People on bicycles, horse-drawn carriages and two streetcars make their way along the street, lined to either side by Victorian-style high rise shop buildings. "Slavin Building." is printed on the side of a tall building in the left foreground, while a building with a spired dome can be seen in the right distance. Other legible signs include: "Slavin Block", "Chas. H. Ward Druggist", "Hardware and Stoves", "The Model Grocery Company", "Telegraph Office", and "Delicious Refreshing Coca-Cola".

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Title View of the intersection of Fair Oaks Avenue and Colorado Boulevard looking south from Union Street, Pasadena, ca.1910

Subject Los Angeles County -- Pasadena -- Streets (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Fair Oaks Avenue & Colorado Boulevard (roadway), Los Angeles (counties), Pasadena (city or populated place), Union Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1905/1915

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 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 1905/1915

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-m6207

Identifier 7598 (accession number), CHS-7598 (call number), CHS-7598 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6305 (legacy record id), chs-m6207 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6315 (legacy record id), 1-37-280 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6305

Unique identifier UC128424

Legacy Identifier CHS-7598.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 33.7 cm at 300dpi

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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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