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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Main Street looking north from Second Street, ca.1889
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Main Street looking north from Second Street, ca.1889
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Description
Photograph of Main Street looking north from Second Street, ca.1889. The Childs Opera House is on the right, built 1883 and opened May 1884. Beyond it the bell tower is atop the headquarters of the Confidence Engine Company, a volunteer organization which was formed in 1874 -- Headquarters 7 Reg. N.G.C. formed May 1888. The Opera Restaurant is at left. The Chamber of Commerce hat its second quarters in the room above the restaurant. The new U.S. Hotel is in the distance. A cannon is visible on the parapet at left. Streetcars and numerous horse-drawn wagons and carriages move up and down the dirt street or are parked along the curb. Additional legible writing includes: ..."real estate"..., ..."paints"..., "Castr[...], wholesale, retail grocers", "Signs", "harness"..., "Finest California wines", "The Kline Clothing Co.", ..."Inglewood Property"..., "Grand Opera House", ..."House Jewelry Store".
Asset Metadata
Title
Main Street looking north from Second Street, ca.1889
Subject
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Main Street -- Temple to 4th
(file heading),
Retail trade
(lcsh),
roadways
(adlf),
St. Vibiana
(subject),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Main Street & 2nd Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1889
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
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
1889
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-m613
Identifier
4302 (
accession number
), CHS-4302 (
call number
), CHS-4302 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-6020 (
legacy record id
), chs-m613 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-614 (
legacy record id
), 1-6-111 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
6020
Unique identifier
UC128131
Legacy Identifier
CHS-4302.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 12.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 32.2 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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