View of Ocean Avenue in Long Beach, ca.1906

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Photograph of a view of Ocean Avenue in Long Beach, ca.1906. Two sets of streetcar tracks run down the middle of an unpaved road at center. A line of utility poles can be seen between the tracks. The street is lined with two- or three-story buildings and sidewalks on both sides. At left, several horse-drawn vehicles and early automobiles are visible. A group of pedestrians is crossing the road at right. The photograph has been extensively touched-up.; Legible signs include, from left: "Real Estate", "Palace Sweets", "Pool", "The Butler Furnished Rooms", "Shirley V. Bacon Photo Studio", and "Del Mar D[ining] Room".

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Title View of Ocean Avenue in Long Beach, ca.1906

Subject Los Angeles County -- Long Beach -- Streets (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 1333 Ocean Avenue (roadway), California (states), Long Beach (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1906

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 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 1906

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5918

Identifier 32811 (accession number), CHS-32811 (call number), CHS-32811 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5929 (legacy record id), chs-m5918 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6026 (legacy record id), 1-32-134 (microfiche number), USC (project), 1333 (unidentified no.), 1334 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5929

Unique identifier UC127874

Legacy Identifier CHS-32811.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.8 in × 9.2 in at 300dpi
35.1 cm × 23.6 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

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