Walnut Park buildings, showing 1933 earthquake damage, ca.1933

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Title Walnut Park buildings, showing 1933 earthquake damage, ca.1933

Description Photograph of Walnut Park buildings, showing 1933 earthquake damage, ca.1933. A crowd of people walk down the street which extends from the center foreground to the left distance. Buildings line the right side of the road. Piles of debris flow over the sidewalk from the crumbled buildings. A drug store on the street corner at right which shows the sign "Under New Management" has lost the exterior walls to its second floor.

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1933

Subject buildings (adlf), Earthquakes (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Huntington Park (file heading)

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

Place California (states), Huntington Park (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Walnut Park (city or populated place)

Temporal Subject 1933

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 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-m5737

Identifier 40546 (accession number), CHS-40546 (call number), CHS-40546 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5765 (legacy record id), chs-m5737 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5857 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5765

Unique identifier UC127642

Legacy Identifier CHS-40546.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 24.4 in × 18.3 in at 300dpi
62.0 cm × 46.5 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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