California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of the Pershing Square garage construction site, looking northwest from Sixth Street, showing the Blitmore Hotel in the background, ca.1955

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View of the Pershing Square garage construction site, looking northwest from Sixth Street, showing the Blitmore Hotel in the background, ca.1955

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Photograph of a view of the Pershing Square garage construction site, looking northwest from Sixth Street, showing the Blitmore Hotel in the background, ca.1955. The dirt construction site of the Pershing Square garage fills the fore- and centergrounds, with construction equipment and debris visible in the center and right centergrounds. Two clusters of palm trees sit in the rear centerground. Highrise buildings line the background, including the Biltmore Hotel and the Philharmonic Auditorium Building. A billboard reading "Try Alka-Seltzer for Headache" tops a building in the right background.

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Title View of the Pershing Square garage construction site, looking northwest from Sixth Street, showing the Blitmore Hotel in the background, ca.1955

Subject Biltmore Hotel (subject), Building (lcsh), buildings (lcsh), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), land parcels (adlf), Los Angeles -- Streets -- 6th Street #1 (file heading), Parks (lcsh), Philharmonic Auditorium Building (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 1955

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1955

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-m553

Identifier 31138 (accession number), CHS-31138 (call number), CHS-31138 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25503 (legacy record id), chs-m553 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-554 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25503

Unique identifier UC128337

Legacy Identifier CHS-31138.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.1 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
48.5 cm × 35.0 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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