Eastward view of Third Street toward Boylston Street, after widening, straightening and improving the street, ca.1931

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Title Eastward view of Third Street toward Boylston Street, after widening, straightening and improving the street, ca.1931

Description Photograph of an eastward view of Third Street toward Boylston Street, after widening, straightening and improving the street, ca.1931. Third Street runs from the foreground at left to the background at center and is divided by two sets of streetcar tracks. Several automobiles can be seen in the distance at center. Large brick buildings are visible on the right side of the road, while houses and trees can be seen at left. Utility wires are visible overhead.

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1931

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), buildings (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- 3rd Street (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 3rd Street & Boylston Street (roadways), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1931

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m509

Identifier 44020 (accession number), CHS-44020 (call number), CHS-44020 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25462 (legacy record id), chs-m509 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-509 (legacy record id), USC (project), 3701 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25462

Unique identifier UC128604

Legacy Identifier CHS-44020.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.3 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
46.7 cm × 34.3 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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