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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of 6th Street looking west from Main Street, viewed from above, Los Angeles, ca.1917
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View of 6th Street looking west from Main Street, viewed from above, Los Angeles, ca.1917
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Description
Photograph of a view of 6th Street looking west from Main Street, viewed from above, Los Angeles, ca.1917. Tall commercial buildings block the view of the rest of the city. The rooftops of two smaller buildings are visible in the foreground. The streets below are lined with streetcar rails. The streets are busy with pedestrian and vehicle traffic. Early-model cars are parked along the street.; Legible signs include: "Baker-Detwiler building", "[Los An]geles Trust & Savings Bank", "voters[...]", "Chocolate Shop", "billiards", "The Sun Drug Co.", "Premier, the perfect cart, aluminum six with magnetic gear shift", "Operations Club", "Motion Picture", "317 West, Halms Art Studio", "Lindley building", "violin shop upstairs", "La Abilidad, made for California, Havana cigars", "hotel for women bible institute", "Pacific Mutual, life and accident", "Hotel Lamm", "Hotel Ryan", "Hotel Chester", "The Glenglark [...]".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of 6th Street looking west from Main Street, viewed from above, Los Angeles, ca.1917
Subject
buildings
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- 6th Street #2
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
6th Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Main Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1917
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1917
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-m547
Identifier
5721 (
accession number
), CHS-5721 (
call number
), CHS-5721 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-25497 (
legacy record id
), chs-m547 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-548 (
legacy record id
), 1-8-21 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
25497
Unique identifier
UC128658
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5721.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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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