California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Street in Monrovia City during the arrival of a Pacific Electric trolley car, Los Angeles, ca.1900

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Street in Monrovia City during the arrival of a Pacific Electric trolley car, Los Angeles, ca.1900

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Photograph of a street in Monrovia City during the arrival of a Pacific Electric trolley car, Los Angeles, ca.1900. The Pacific Electric car cuts in from the frame at left and a group of five men stand in front of it awaiting entry. Interspersed among them are two conductors, while a third can be seen inside the car at the entrance. A wide, unpaved street stretches beyond the car towards the mountains in the distance while four more men stand at its end looking at the trolley. Shops line either side of the street. Legible signs include: "Postal Telegraph Commercial Cables", "Hardware Stoves, Ect.", "Thos. Neville Druggist", and a fallen banner which reads "Real Estate". Utility cables make a web of trolley car cables over the scene.

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Title Street in Monrovia City during the arrival of a Pacific Electric trolley car, Los Angeles, ca.1900

Subject Electric railroads (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Monrovia (file heading), Pacific Electric Railway (subject), Streets (lcsh), transportation features (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1895/1905

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 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 1895/1905

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

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-m5952

Identifier 6757 (accession number), CHS-6757 (call number), CHS-6757 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5962 (legacy record id), chs-m5952 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6060 (legacy record id), 1-69-16 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5962

Unique identifier UC127703

Legacy Identifier CHS-6757.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.0 in × 15.9 in at 300dpi
50.8 cm × 40.6 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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