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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Sixth Street between Broadway and Spring Street, looking east, Los Angeles, ca.1905
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View of Sixth Street between Broadway and Spring Street, looking east, Los Angeles, ca.1905
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Photograph of a view of Sixth Street between Broadway and Spring Street, looking east, Los Angeles, ca.1905. A majority of the buildings are above four-stories tall. Streetcar tracks line the street. Horse-drawn carriages can be seen parked or moving down the street. The street is busy with pedestrian traffic.; Legible signs include: "Salt Lake route, direct line to the goldfields of Nevada [and] Utah", "Southern Pacific, 600 S. Spring", "tickets", "[...] Bank [...]", "Consolidated Lumber Co., wholesale lumber", "Dr. Lanterman, Dr. R.G. Russel", "The Chas Nelson Co., wholesale redwood", "St. Paul [...], lumb[er], wholesale", "Dr. H. Herbert, Dr. R.H. Burton", "Occidental Life, Dr. Hitchcock, Dr. Fulton". Identifiable buildings include, from left to right: Hotel Orange, on the north-west corner of Spring Street and 6th Street (at the extreme left); All Day & Night Bank, on the north-east corner of Spring Street and 6th Street; Severance Building (built in 1905), on the north-west corner of Main Street and & 6th Street; W.G. Kerckhoff Building (built in 1908), on the north-east corner of Main Street and 6th Street; Pacific Electric Building (built in 1904), on the south-east corner of Main Street and 6th Street -- its edge only is visible behind Central Building; Central Building (built in 1908), on the south-west corner of Main Street and 6th Street; Grosse Building (1906-1957), on the south-east corner of Spring Street and 6th Street -- the one with the "Southern Pacific" sign on its top; Hotel Hayward (built in 1906), on the south-west corner of Spring Street and 6th Street (at the extreme right).
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Sixth Street between Broadway and Spring Street, looking east, Los Angeles, ca.1905
Subject
buildings
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- 6th Street #2
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
6th Street & Spring Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1905
Type
images
Format
3 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm., 13 x 11 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1905
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-m557
Identifier
5484 (
accession number
), CHS-5484 (
call number
), CHS-5484 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-25507 (
legacy record id
), chs-m557 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-558 (
legacy record id
), 1-8-11 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
25507
Unique identifier
UC128708
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5484.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
13.5 in × 16.7 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 42.5 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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