California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Olympic Boulevard east of Hoover Street, ca.1933-1939

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Olympic Boulevard east of Hoover Street, ca.1933-1939

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Photograph of Olympic Boulevard looking east from Hoover Street, circa 1933-1939. The street lies at center striped with dotted lines while automobiles drive either way along it in the background. More automobiles sit parked along either sidewalk where electrical poles stand. A building labeled "Radio" stands on the left while large homes stand on the right. More homes stand along the left side in the background. Trees shade the yards of the homes in the background.

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Title Olympic Boulevard east of Hoover Street, ca.1933-1939

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Dwellings (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Olympic Boulevard (file heading), roadways (adlf), Stores, Retail (lcsh), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Olympic Boulevard & Hoover Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1933/1939

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 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)

Date Created 1933/1939

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m688

Identifier 42146 (accession number), CHS-42146 (call number), CHS-42146 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6090 (legacy record id), chs-m688 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-689 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6090

Unique identifier UC128025

Legacy Identifier CHS-42146.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.3 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
46.5 cm × 34.1 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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