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Two panoramic drawings depicting views from the tower of the Baker Block, Los Angeles, ca.1889
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Two panoramic drawings depicting views from the tower of the Baker Block, Los Angeles, ca.1889

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Photograph of two panoramic drawings depicting views from the tower of the Baker Block, Los Angeles, ca.1889. The top panorama looks southwest over a cityscape of Victorian three-story houses. Picture File Card reads: "Showing Court House under construction". Pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages make their way down the street at the extreme left. The lower panorama shows a four-lane making its way down the center of the image to the mountains in the background. It is flanked to either side by Victorian-style tenement buildings. The road forks off into a smaller road to the near the center of the frame. Streetcars and horse-drawn carriages navigate it. The illustration is most likely by Ward Brothers of Columbus, Ohio. 
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Title Two panoramic drawings depicting views from the tower of the Baker Block, Los Angeles, ca.1889 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1884/1894 
Subject cities  (adlf), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Main Street -- North of Temple  (file heading), Streets  (lcsh) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place buildings: Baker Block (geographic subject), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Main Street (roadway), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1884/1894 
Type images
Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), 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) 
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-m591 
Identifier 7353 (accession number), CHS-7353 (call number), CHS-7353 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25539 (legacy record id), chs-m591 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-592 (legacy record id), 1-13-45 (microfiche number), USC (project) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 25539 
Unique identifier UC128749 
Legacy Identifier CHS-7353.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 16.4 in × 12.8 in at 300dpi
41.6 cm × 32.5 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 
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