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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Vacant land at 5th Street and Towne Avenue, looking northwest, Los Angeles, ca.1890
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Vacant land at 5th Street and Towne Avenue, looking northwest, Los Angeles, ca.1890
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Description
Photograph of vacant land at 5th Street and Towne Avenue, looking northwest, Los Angeles, ca.1890. At left stands a large building with a sign on the roof reading "L.A. Lumber Co." Streetcar rails run up the dirt street in the foreground. The Los Angeles skyline is visible in the distance.
Asset Metadata
Title
Vacant land at 5th Street and Towne Avenue, looking northwest, Los Angeles, ca.1890
Subject
Los Angeles -- Streets -- 5th Street #1
(file heading),
Los Angeles Lumber Company
(subject),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
5th Street & Towne Avenue
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1890
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm.
(aacr2),
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
1890
Contributor
Puck Collection
(provenance)
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
Send requests to address or e-mail given
Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m532
Identifier
4782 (
accession number
), CHS-4782 (
call number
), CHS-4782 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-25482 (
legacy record id
), chs-m532 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-533 (
legacy record id
), 1-4-31 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
25482
Unique identifier
UC128739
Legacy Identifier
CHS-4782.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.7 in × 12.8 in at 300dpi
42.5 cm × 32.6 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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