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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Western Tire Company store, southeast corner of Sixth Street and Olive Street, 1920-1921
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Western Tire Company store, southeast corner of Sixth Street and Olive Street, 1920-1921
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Description
Photograph of Western Tire Company store on the southeast corner of Sixth Street and Olive Street, 1920-1921. Pedestrians are walking across the street and on the sidewalk. Very tall buildings adjacent to store and in background. Two automobiles, a truck and a couple of motorcycles/bicycles are parked on the street. Streetcar rails visible in street. Utility poles and lines criss-cross the upper portion of the image. Legible signs include: "Los Angeles [...]ey Co.", ..."St. Factory", "Model lunch room", "Pure candies", "Shave", "Tire bargains", "We are moving to 1007 S. Main, 1006 S. Bdwy.", "Standard make 33-4 $17.30" + 32 other price signs, addresses "600" & "604" & "612", "Bargains in tires", "Standard make, first 6000 miles, factory"..., "Open Sundays & evenings", "Automobile Tire Co.", "Western Tire Co., guaranteed vulcanizing", "Goodyear service station", ..."Dye works, [...] repairing", ..."for [...] delivered"..., "J.C. Cross Co., Hartford[?] Tires Federal", "Rude & Opp", "Kelly-Springtie[...] Tire"..., "Garage".
Asset Metadata
Title
Western Tire Company store, southeast corner of Sixth Street and Olive Street, 1920-1921
Subject
Los Angeles -- Streets -- 6th Street #2
(file heading),
Stores, Retail
(lcsh),
Streets
(lcsh),
Tire industry
(lcsh),
Tires, rubber
(lcsh),
Western Tire Company
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
6th Street & Olive Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1920/1921
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 16.5 x 21.5 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
1920/1921
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-m564
Identifier
299 (
accession number
), CHS-299 (
call number
), CHS-299 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-25514 (
legacy record id
), chs-m564 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-565 (
legacy record id
), 1-8-2 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
25514
Unique identifier
UC128362
Legacy Identifier
CHS-299.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.7 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
45.0 cm × 34.5 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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