California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Group of motorists driving an early automobile along Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, ca.1903

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Group of motorists driving an early automobile along Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, ca.1903

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Photograph of a group of motorists driving an early automobile along Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, ca.1903. Four women and a man make their way along the unpaved road in a topless automobile, the man driving and dressed in a long coat. A two-story craftsman-style house is visible in the right background at the foot of a hill, while a second, similarly constructed house can be seen to the left behind a utility pole. A gazebo topped by an American flag is pictured at the top of the hill.

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Title Group of motorists driving an early automobile along Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, ca.1903

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Streets (lcsh), Transportation -- Automobiles -- General (file heading), transportation features (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Hollywood Boulevard (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1903

Type images

Format 2 photograph : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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 1903

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-m11709

Identifier 7879 (accession number), CHS-7879 (call number), CHS-7879 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11121 (legacy record id), chs-m11709 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-11860 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11121

Unique identifier UC128403

Legacy Identifier CHS-7879.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.4 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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