California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Hollywood looking north from Santa Monica Boulevard and Highland Avenue, ca.1929

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View of Hollywood looking north from Santa Monica Boulevard and Highland Avenue, ca.1929

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Photograph of a panoramic view of Hollywood looking north from Santa Monica Boulevard and Highland Avenue, ca.1929. Several commercial lots and buildings fill the foreground half of the image, while residential blocks full of houses fill the rest, terminating in several high rise buildings in background right before the mountains. Highland Avenue is visible on the right. A lone "H" stands legible on the mountains to the right. Possible panorama with CHS-7918 and 7920.; Other legible signs include: "Ideal Manufacturing Co. / Sash & Doors--Window & Door Screens--Cupboard Doors / Special Cabinet and Mill Work / Ever-Cool Porch Shade / Ideal Metal Seat Ends", "Blue Diamond Service / Office on Highland Ave. / [Su]ccessors to Geo. L. Eastman Co.", "Olde Gold", "The Distinctive Awning Co.", "R.B. Willard Building Materials", "Milton Motor Service / General Auto Repairing", and "Diato Flooring Company / [...] Tile".

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Title View of Hollywood looking north from Santa Monica Boulevard and Highland Avenue, ca.1929

Subject cities (adlf), Los Angeles -- Hollywood -- General views -- Panoramas (1920s) (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1924/1934

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 1924/1934

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-m3114

Identifier 7019 (accession number), CHS-7019 (call number), CHS-7019 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4077 (legacy record id), chs-m3114 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3186 (legacy record id), 1-31-164 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4077

Unique identifier UC118933

Legacy Identifier CHS-7019.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 35.1 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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