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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Buena Vista Street from Sunset Boulevard, Sonora Town, ca.1887-1892
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Buena Vista Street from Sunset Boulevard, Sonora Town, ca.1887-1892

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Photograph of Buena Vista Street (later North Broadway) from Sunset Boulevard, Sonora Town, ca.1887-1892. Utility poles line both sides of the dirt road. A wagon is parked at right. Wheel tracks are visible in the dirt up the middle of the road. A line of one-story wooden buildings lines the left side of the street. The Mario G. Santa Cruz adobe stands just beyond the "A No.1 Bar, Branch [...] F. Ballade [...]". A water tower bears a sign reading "Ta[...] Fac[...]" in the distance. 
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Title Buena Vista Street from Sunset Boulevard, Sonora Town, ca.1887-1892 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1887/1892 
Subject Los Angeles County -- Los Angeles -- Sonora Town -- Streets -- North Broadway  (file heading), roadways  (adlf), Streets  (lcsh) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), North Broadway & Sunset Boulevard (roadway), Sonora Town (city or populated place), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1887/1892 
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) 
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-m4946 
Identifier 4256 (accession number), CHS-4256 (call number), CHS-4256 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25403 (legacy record id), chs-m4946 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5044 (legacy record id), 1-15-43 (microfiche number), USC (project) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 25403 
Unique identifier UC128743 
Legacy Identifier CHS-4256.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 17.0 in × 12.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 31.9 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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