Exterior view of an adobe house (houses?) in Sonora Town, Los Angeles, ca.1895

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Title Exterior view of an adobe house (houses?) in Sonora Town, Los Angeles, ca.1895

Description Photograph of the exterior view of an adobe house (houses?) in Sonora Town, Los Angeles, ca.1895. The single-story house (or stretch of houses) appears to be used for commercial use. Different store names are displayed on the windows offering food to hair cutting service. The stucco is peeling from the worn and chipped adobe bricks that form the walls. There is a door and doorsteps at every two or three yard intervals. Utility poles line the sidewalk. Heavy track marks line the dirt road in front of the house. Legible signs include: "El Monte Mexicans", "Liberria Mexican[...]", "El Poplar, semanario independ[ence] noticioso, P. Gomez, editor, director y propietorio, Ga[...] Fernando, num. 660", "menudo, enchiladas y café", "barber shop", "for rent", "original Mexican, dining room, Sra. Lolita B. Bolt", "entrance".

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1895

Subject Adobe houses (lcsh), Aguilar, Christobol Don (subject), Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), Dwellings (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Los Angeles -- Sonora Town -- Streets -- North Spring Street (file heading), residential sites (adlf)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 658-668 North Spring Street (roadways), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1895

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.; 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m4866

Identifier 5297 (accession number), CHS-5297 (call number), CHS-5297 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25324 (legacy record id), chs-m4866 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-4964 (legacy record id), 1-15-66 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25324

Unique identifier UC128666

Legacy Identifier CHS-5297.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.6 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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