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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Lang Transportation Company in Huntington Park, showing 1933 earthquake damage, ca.1933
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Lang Transportation Company in Huntington Park, showing 1933 earthquake damage, ca.1933
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Description
Photograph of the Lang Transportation Company in Huntington Park, showing 1933 earthquake damage, ca.1933. A truck sits along the far side of the street at right while an electrical poles stands along the sidewalk at left. The large, brick building stands at center with a collapsed roof. The exterior walls of the second story have crumbled to the ground where plants sit underneath the arched windows. A large billboard on the far left reads "76".
Asset Metadata
Title
Lang Transportation Company in Huntington Park, showing 1933 earthquake damage, ca.1933
Subject
buildings
(adlf),
Earthquakes
(lcsh),
Lang Transportation Company
(subject),
Los Angeles County -- Huntington Park
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Huntington Park
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
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)
Date Created
1933
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-m5740
Identifier
40548 (
accession number
), CHS-40548 (
call number
), CHS-40548 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-5768 (
legacy record id
), chs-m5740 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-5860 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
5768
Unique identifier
UC127611
Legacy Identifier
CHS-40548.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
24.0 in × 18.3 in at 300dpi
60.9 cm × 46.5 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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