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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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Description
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.
Asset Metadata
Title
Buena Vista Street from Sunset Boulevard, Sonora Town, ca.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)
Date Created
1887/1892
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-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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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