California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

View of Pasadena Avenue (formerly North Figueroa Street) looking north from the beginning of Sycamore Grove in Highland Park, ca.1888-1890

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View of Pasadena Avenue (formerly North Figueroa Street) looking north from the beginning of Sycamore Grove in Highland Park, ca.1888-1890

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Photograph of a view of Pasadena Avenue (formerly North Figueroa Street) looking north from the beginning of Sycamore Grove, Highland Park, ca.1888-1890. A horse-drawn carriage in the distance makes its way down the wide dirt road at center. A few two-story houses are visible behind a cluster of trees to the right. They are surrounded by short picket fences. Rubble is also visible along the foreground right side of the road.

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Title View of Pasadena Avenue (formerly North Figueroa Street) looking north from the beginning of Sycamore Grove in Highland Park, ca.1888-1890

Subject Carriages and carts (lcsh), Dwellings (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Highland Park -- Streets (file heading), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Pasadena Avenue (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Sycamore (lcsh), Trees (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Highland Park (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Pasadena Avenue (formerly North Figueroa Street) (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1888/1890

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)

Date Created 1888/1890

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

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-m692

Identifier 7856 (accession number), CHS-7856 (call number), CHS-7856 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6094 (legacy record id), chs-m692 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3019 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-693 (legacy record id), 1-13-62 (microfiche number), 1-30- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6094

Unique identifier UC128386

Legacy Identifier CHS-7856.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.7 cm at 300dpi

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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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