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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of north Broadway in Sonora Town looking north from Fort Hill, ca.1869
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View of north Broadway in Sonora Town looking north from Fort Hill, ca.1869

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Photograph of a view of north Broadway in Sonora Town looking north from Fort Hill, Los Angeles, ca.1869. Rocks cut in from the left foreground, obscuring some of the view of the town, which is comprised mostly out of craftsman-style houses arranged more or less each on their own block. The road is unpaved, visible to the right of center. Mountains are visible in the background. Photograph compares to CHS-6908, CHS-6954, CHS-7388 and CHS-7390. 
Asset Metadata
Title View of north Broadway in Sonora Town looking north from Fort Hill, ca.1869 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1864/1874 
Subject Los Angeles County -- Los Angeles -- Sonora Town -- General  (file heading), Plazas  (lcsh), roadways  (adlf) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), North Broadway (roadway), Sonora Town (city or populated place), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1864/1874 
Type images
Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (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-m4913 
Identifier 7078 (accession number), CHS-7078 (call number), CHS-7078 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25371 (legacy record id), chs-m4913 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5011 (legacy record id), 1-15-103 (microfiche number), USC (project) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 25371 
Unique identifier UC128579 
Legacy Identifier CHS-7078.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 18.4 in × 14.1 in at 300dpi
46.7 cm × 35.8 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 
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