California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of the corner of Citrus Avenue and Badillo Street in Covina, showing a Pacific Electric streetcar, ca.1908

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View of the corner of Citrus Avenue and Badillo Street in Covina, showing a Pacific Electric streetcar, ca.1908

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Photograph of a view of the corner of Citrus Avenue and Badillo Street in Covina, showing a Pacific Electric streetcar, ca.1908. Two conductors can be seen standing on the front runners of the streetcar at right, just in front of the two-story brick building of the Covina National Bank. Farther left, a covertable early-model automobile can be seen parked along the sidewalk along with a number of horse-drawn coaches. The roads are unpaved.; Legible signs from left to right include: "Franz Richter Bicycle Repairs. The Rich[...]", "Bath", "Covina Furniture Co.", and "1.0.0.F. Meets Wed.".

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Title View of the corner of Citrus Avenue and Badillo Street in Covina, showing a Pacific Electric streetcar, ca.1908

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Electric railroads (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Covina (file heading), Retail trade (lcsh), roadways (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Citrus Avenue & Badillo Street (roadway), Covina (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1908

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, b&w ; 12 x 16 cm., 21 x 26 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 1908

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-m5712

Identifier 12697 (accession number), CHS-12697 (call number), CHS-12697 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5740 (legacy record id), chs-m5712 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5831 (legacy record id), 1-65-4 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5740

Unique identifier UC127585

Legacy Identifier CHS-12697.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.5 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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