California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the first location of the Farmers and Merchants Bank on Main Street north of the St. Charles Hotel in Los Angeles, ca.1885

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Exterior view of the first location of the Farmers and Merchants Bank on Main Street north of the St. Charles Hotel in Los Angeles, ca.1885

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Photograph of the exterior of the first location of the Farmers and Merchants Bank on Main Street north of the St. Charles Hotel in Los Angeles, ca.1885. The two story bank, which was established in 1871, is dwarfed by the two buildings that flank it, both of which have three stories. There are two four-wheeled vehicles parked on the street in front of the buildings, both of them drawn by a single horse. Legible signs include, on the top of the bank, "Bank of Los Angeles", on a pentagonal sign on the left side of the picture, "Cigars", on top of the hotel, "St. Char[les]", and, in the center of the picture, "B[...]chs".

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Title Exterior view of the first location of the Farmers and Merchants Bank on Main Street north of the St. Charles Hotel in Los Angeles, ca.1885

Subject Banks and banking (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Farmers and Merchants Bank (subject), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Main Street -- General (file heading), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Main Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1885

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 1885

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-m655

Identifier 9644 (accession number), CHS-9644 (call number), CHS-9644 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6013 (legacy record id), chs-m655 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-656 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6013

Unique identifier UC128289

Legacy Identifier CHS-9644.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.9 in × 19.8 in at 300dpi
40.5 cm × 50.5 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

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