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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Olive Street looking south toward and past Fifth Street, December, 1985
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Olive Street looking south toward and past Fifth Street, December, 1985
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Description
Photograph of Olive Street, looking south across a parking lot toward Pershing Square, December, 1985. A parking lot lies at left with a toll booth in the foreground. Pershing Square shaded with trees lies behind it while the street runs along both of their right sides. A bus sits parked in front of the San Carlos Hotel and Googie's Coffee Shop. The Biltmore Hotel stands further down the street while the skyscraper housing the City National Bank stands at center background along with several other buildings.
Asset Metadata
Title
Olive Street looking south toward and past Fifth Street, December, 1985
Subject
Biltmore Hotel
(subject),
buildings
(adlf),
Churches
(lcsh),
City National Bank
(subject),
Googie's Coffee Shop
(subject),
Hotels, taverns, etc.
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Olive Street
(file heading),
Parking lots
(lcsh),
Parks
(lcsh),
Restaurants, lunch rooms, etc.
(lcsh),
San Carlos Hotel
(subject),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Olive Street & Fifth Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1985-12
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
1985-12
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-m683
Identifier
42144 (
accession number
), CHS-42144 (
call number
), CHS-42144 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-6081 (
legacy record id
), chs-m683 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-684 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
6081
Unique identifier
UC127937
Legacy Identifier
CHS-42144.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.5 in × 16.1 in at 300dpi
52.1 cm × 40.8 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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