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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of 6th Street looking west from above the Kerckhoff building on Main Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917
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View of 6th Street looking west from above the Kerckhoff building on Main Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917
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Description
Photograph of a view of 6th Street looking west from above the Kerckhoff building on Main Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917. Tall buildings flank the busy street below. The street is filled with pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Streetcar rails line the streets. Legible signs include: "Occidental Life", "soda", "cigars", "Salt Lake Route", "Baker-Detwiler building", "Hotel Superior, transients are [...]", "Gates Hotel", "florist".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of 6th Street looking west from above the Kerckhoff building on Main Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917
Subject
buildings
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- 6th Street #2
(file heading),
Occidental Life
(subject),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Sixth Street & Main Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1917
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1917
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m542
Identifier
5713 (
accession number
), CHS-5713 (
call number
), CHS-5713 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-25492 (
legacy record id
), chs-m542 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-543 (
legacy record id
), 1-8-20 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
25492
Unique identifier
UC128528
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5713.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.0 in × 19.9 in at 300dpi
40.8 cm × 50.7 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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