California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Birdseye view of Sunset Boulevard in Tujunga, looking north toward the San Gabriel Mountains, ca.1920

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Birdseye view of Sunset Boulevard in Tujunga, looking north toward the San Gabriel Mountains, ca.1920

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Photograph of a birdseye view of Sunset Boulevard in Tujunga, looking north toward the San Gabriel Mountains, ca.1920. Sunset Boulevard (now Commerce Avenue) runs diagonally through the lower right corner of the image, dotted by automobiles. Michigan Avenue (now Foothill Boulevard) runs diagonally through the lower left corner, intersecting Sunset in the foreground of the image. Buildings, both commercial and residential, sit amidst trees and expanses of undeveloped vegetation; the roof of a building along Michigan Avenue reads "Globe Flour". The snow-topped San Gabriel mountains sit along the horizon.

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Title Birdseye view of Sunset Boulevard in Tujunga, looking north toward the San Gabriel Mountains, ca.1920

Subject commercial sites (adlf), Globe Flour (subject), Los Angeles -- San Fernando Valley -- General views (file heading), Mountains (lcsh), Snow (lcsh), Stores, Retail (lcsh), Streets (lcsh), Suburbs (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Sunset Boulevard (roadway), Tujunga (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1920

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 1920

Creator Lamson Photo (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-m3778

Identifier 31188 (accession number), CHS-31188 (call number), CHS-31188 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5336 (legacy record id), chs-m3778 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3862 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5336

Unique identifier UC119197

Legacy Identifier CHS-31188.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.4 in × 15.3 in at 300dpi
49.3 cm × 38.8 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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