Lang Transportation Company in Huntington Park, showing 1933 earthquake damage, ca.1933

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Title Lang Transportation Company in Huntington Park, showing 1933 earthquake damage, ca.1933

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".

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1933

Subject buildings (adlf), Earthquakes (lcsh), Lang Transportation Company (subject), 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)

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-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

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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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