Exterior view of the front of City Hall in Compton, 1926

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Photograph of an exterior view of the front of City Hall in Compton, 1926. The rectangular, two-story building is pictured at center, just in from a dirt road and sidewalk in the foreground. A paved path leads from the sidewalk to the building's front entrance which is encapsulated by a foyer of five archways.The arched windows above are decorated with filigree molding, and two tower-like structures stand as bookends to either side of the building, attached. The building was later destroyed in the earthquake of March 1933.

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Title Exterior view of the front of City Hall in Compton, 1926

Subject buildings (adlf), City halls (lcsh), Compton City Hall (subject), Los Angeles County -- Compton (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Compton (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1926

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 3 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 1926

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5680

Identifier 12740 (accession number), CHS-12740 (call number), CHS-12740 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5709 (legacy record id), chs-m5680 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-5799 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5709

Unique identifier UC127591

Legacy Identifier CHS-12740.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.2 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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