California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood looking west from Gower (?) Street, California, ca.1905

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Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood looking west from Gower (?) Street, California, ca.1905

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Photograph of Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood looking west from Gower (?) Street, California, ca.1905. Trees and a picket fence line the right side of the unpaved road, in which the tracks for a streetcar are evident. To the left, poles for the streetcar's cable extend into the distance, along with the remains of cut lumber. Behind this to the left, a few thin trees stand.

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Title Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood looking west from Gower (?) Street, California, ca.1905

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

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1900/1910

Subject Eucalyptus (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Hollywood -- Streets (file heading), Railroads -- Track (lcsh), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Trees (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Hollywood (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Santa Monica Boulevard & Gower Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900/1910

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)

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-m3357

Identifier 6550 (accession number), CHS-6550 (call number), CHS-6550 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4313 (legacy record id), chs-m3357 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3429 (legacy record id), 1-31-92 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4313

Unique identifier UC118935

Legacy Identifier CHS-6550.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.6 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
44.9 cm × 33.7 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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