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View of Sixth Street looking west from Main Street, Los Angeles, 1903
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View of Sixth Street looking west from Main Street, Los Angeles, 1903

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Photograph of a view of Sixth Street looking west from Main Street, Los Angeles, 1903. Five pedestrians can be seen scattered in the intersection of the two streets, their faces indeterminate. Utility poles line the sidewalks, a two-story house to the left, a one-story to the right. Billboards are visible in the background. Streetcar tracks are embedded in the road. Image is a reproduction of a published photo. Picture file card reads: "The building at the left up the street, was the first 4 story building in the district and then was advertised as being out of the high rents.". Legible signs include: "[...] Everything at Cost", and "Lion Café / Try Gordon's [...] Old Crow [...] Bottled Goods a Specialty". 
Asset Metadata
Title View of Sixth Street looking west from Main Street, Los Angeles, 1903 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1903 
Subject Carriages and carts  (lcsh), Dwellings  (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- 6th Street #2  (file heading), roadways  (adlf), Streets  (lcsh) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place 6th Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Main Street (roadway), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1903 
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) 
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-m561 
Identifier 7363 (accession number), CHS-7363 (call number), CHS-7363 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25511 (legacy record id), chs-m561 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-562 (legacy record id), 1-8-34 (microfiche number), USC (project) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 25511 
Unique identifier UC128617 
Legacy Identifier CHS-7363.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 17.3 in × 14.1 in at 300dpi
44.0 cm × 35.8 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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