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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Dwellings on Towne Avenue looking southwest from Fifth Street, 1891
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Dwellings on Towne Avenue looking southwest from Fifth Street, 1891
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Description
Photograph of dwellings on Towne Avenue looking southwest from Fifth Street, 1891. Tall sparsely-foliated trees grow around the dwellings at center. Streetcar rails run down the dirt street in the foreground. A wood fence adjacent to the sidewalk has numerous bills posted on it. Legible signs include: "For your stomach's sake, Hires root beer"..., "Ayer's sarsaparilla, for all blood diseases"..., "The Stowaway, Los Angeles Theatre, Thursday and Friday, Oct. 6 & 7"..., ..."Salv"..., ..."Grand [...] Nov. 5"..., ..."Attention"..., ..."Oct. 3, 4 & 5".
Asset Metadata
Title
Dwellings on Towne Avenue looking southwest from Fifth Street, 1891
Subject
Billboard
(subject),
Billboards
(lcsh),
Bill-posting
(lcsh),
Dwellings
(lcsh),
housing areas
(adlf),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- 5th Street #1
(file heading),
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
1891
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(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
1891
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-m538
Identifier
3758 (
accession number
), CHS-3758 (
call number
), CHS-3758 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-25488 (
legacy record id
), chs-m538 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-539 (
legacy record id
), 1-4-30 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
25488
Unique identifier
UC128748
Legacy Identifier
CHS-3758.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.6 in × 12.6 in at 300dpi
42.2 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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