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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of the corner Main Street and First Street, looking north from the west side of First Street, January 1, 1926
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View of the corner Main Street and First Street, looking north from the west side of First Street, January 1, 1926
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Description
Photograph of a view of the corner Main Street and First Street, looking north from the west side of First Street, January 1, 1926. The entire visible section of Main Street is occupied by a large two-story building with a flat roof and filled with various shops. There are awnings on the first story of many of these buildings, and the street in front of the shops is lined with early-model automobiles. Streetcar cables cross the street overhead, and streetcar tracks carve up the pavement below.; Legible signs include, from left to right, "Chicago Clearing House", "United Cigars", "No Pain Extractions 50 [cents]", "Dentist", "Teeth you can eat with make you look natural guaranteed. 107 W. 1st St.", "Public Bargain House", "Army & Navy Goods", "Dr. J. Evans", "Specialista", "Coney Island Sideshow", and "Signs".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of the corner Main Street and First Street, looking north from the west side of First Street, January 1, 1926
Subject
Dentistry
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Main Street -- Temple to 4th
(file heading),
Main Street
(subject),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
First Street
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Main Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1926-01-01
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 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
1926-01-01
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m629
Identifier
11584 (
accession number
), CHS-11584 (
call number
), CHS-11584 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-6034 (
legacy record id
), chs-m629 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-630 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
), LB29057A (
unidentified no.
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
6034
Unique identifier
UC128038
Legacy Identifier
CHS-11584.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.3 in × 13.9 in at 300dpi
44.0 cm × 35.3 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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