California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Compton Boulevard looking west from Alameda Boulevard in Compton, ca.1885

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View of Compton Boulevard looking west from Alameda Boulevard in Compton, ca.1885

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Photograph of a view of Compton Boulevard looking west from Alameda Boulevard in Compton, ca.1885. A wide, dirt road is shown at center, lined heavily on the right by flat-faced two-story buildings reminiscent of western saloons. In the right foreground, two wheels of a horse-drawn cart can be seen, while farther in pedestrians can be seen exiting the porches of the various buildings, one of them holding the reigns of a horse. An earlier record identifies the McKee Hotel on the "extreme right", and also reads "building with small tower on right was formerly a school building, on present (1959) site of Bank of America at Tamarind Street".

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Title View of Compton Boulevard looking west from Alameda Boulevard in Compton, ca.1885

Subject Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Compton (file heading), McKee Hotel (subject), Retail trade (lcsh), roadways (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Compton (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), west on Compton Boulevard, from Alameda Boulevard (roadway)

Temporal Subject 1885

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 1885

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-m5685

Identifier 12739 (accession number), CHS-12739 (call number), CHS-12739 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5714 (legacy record id), chs-m5685 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-5804 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5714

Unique identifier UC127586

Legacy Identifier CHS-12739.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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