California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

A car on the junction of Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards, looking east, ca.1904

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A car on the junction of Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards, looking east, ca.1904

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Photograph of a car on the junction of Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards, looking east, ca.1904. The early topless motorcarriage drives along an unpaved road in which the tracks for a railcar are embedded. A unicycle sits off to the roadside. Trees and cablecar poles line the background.

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Title A car on the junction of Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards, looking east, ca.1904

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Sunset Boulevard (file heading), roadways (adlf), Street-railroads (lcsh), Streets (lcsh), Unicycles (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1904

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 1904

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-m322

Identifier 6405 (accession number), CHS-6405 (call number), CHS-6405 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3914 (legacy record id), chs-m322 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-320 (legacy record id), 1-13-27 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3914

Unique identifier UC118329

Legacy Identifier CHS-6405.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.1 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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