Ward Block on Colorado Boulevard looking west, containing the Grand Hotel and the Pasadena Bank, 1884

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Title Ward Block on Colorado Boulevard looking west, containing the Grand Hotel and the Pasadena Bank, 1884

Description Photograph of Ward Block on Colorado Boulevard looking west, containing the Grand Hotel and the Pasadena Bank, 1884. A large, three-story building with clapboard veneer at left sports an attached tower with signs that read both "Ward Block." And "Pasadena Bank." Signs on the second story, along either side of the building read "Grand Hotel." Several horse-drawn carriages park or make their way down the boulevard. A man sits on the porch of the Ward Block to the left. Several other buildings can be seen in the background, as well as burgeoning farmland.

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1884

Subject Banks and banking (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Grand Hotel (subject), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Pasadena -- Architecture -- Commercial -- -Hotels -- General (file heading), Pasadena Bank (subject), Ward Block (subject)

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

Place California (states), Colorado Boulevard and Fair Oaks Avenue (roadways), Los Angeles (counties), Pasadena (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1884

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 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)

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-m6140

Identifier 6475 (accession number), CHS-6475 (call number), CHS-6475 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6212 (legacy record id), chs-m6140 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6248 (legacy record id), 1-37-109 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6212

Unique identifier UC128059

Legacy Identifier CHS-6475.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.8 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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