Exterior view of the old Methodist Church on Willowbrook Avenue seen from the city hall site in Compton, 1905

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Photograph of an exterior view of the old Methodist Church on Willowbrook Avenue seen from the city hall site in Compton, 1905. The steeple and belltower of the church can be seen from a distance at center, while to the left, two couples walk by a post-and-rail fence that runs along the sidewalk, supposedly dressed in their Sunday finery. The foremost couple pushes a small baby stroller (perambulator). To the right, an early automobile or horse-drawn carriage can be seen in the distance on a wide dirt road. The church, dedicated in 1872, later became the site of a US Post office.

Asset Metadata

Title Exterior view of the old Methodist Church on Willowbrook Avenue seen from the city hall site in Compton, 1905

Subject Churches (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Compton (file heading), religious facilities (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Compton (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), north on Willowbrook Avenue (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1905

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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 1905

Contributor Gillingham, Robert C. (donor)

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-m5688

Identifier 12738 (accession number), CHS-12738 (call number), CHS-12738 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5717 (legacy record id), chs-m5688 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-5807 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5717

Unique identifier UC127497

Legacy Identifier CHS-12738.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 21.0 in × 16.8 in at 300dpi
53.5 cm × 42.8 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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