California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Sunset Boulevard looking north from Normandie Street, Hollywood, ca.1900

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View of Sunset Boulevard looking north from Normandie Street, Hollywood, ca.1900

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Photograph of a view of Sunset Boulevard looking north from Normandie Street, Hollywood, ca.1900. Trees line the wide, unpaved dirt road to either side. A hedge row is visible behind them to the left, a barbed-wire fence to the right. A driveway is partially visible in the left foreground.

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Title View of Sunset Boulevard looking north from Normandie Street, Hollywood, ca.1900

Subject Los Angeles -- Hollywood -- Streets -- Sunset Boulevard (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1895/1905

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (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

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-m3407

Identifier 7144 (accession number), CHS-7144 (call number), CHS-7144 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4361 (legacy record id), chs-m3407 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3479 (legacy record id), 1-31-177 (microfiche number), 1-31-77 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4361

Unique identifier UC118961

Legacy Identifier CHS-7144.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.3 in × 12.7 in at 300dpi
46.5 cm × 32.2 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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