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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Hollywood looking north from the Athletic Club, showing the Hotel Wilcox, Los Angeles, ca.1927
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View of Hollywood looking north from the Athletic Club, showing the Hotel Wilcox, Los Angeles, ca.1927
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Description
Photograph of a view of Hollywood looking north from the Athletic Club, showing the Hotel Wilcox, Los Angeles, ca.1927. The five-story Hotel Wilcox stands at the center of the frame, ten windows across, advertising "Fireproof" under its sign while small residential buildings surround it in the foreground. Automobiles navigate the road to the bottom left into an area filled with more tall, boxy business buildings. A second residential area is visible in the distant hills, where the "Hollywoodland" sign is visible. What appears to be a weather ballon is suspended in the sky to the extreme right. Legible signs include: "Hotel Mark Twain", "[...] Transfer & Storage Co.", and "Warne[...]".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Hollywood looking north from the Athletic Club, showing the Hotel Wilcox, Los Angeles, ca.1927
Subject
cities
(adlf),
Los Angeles -- Hollywood -- General views -- Panoramas (1920s)
(file heading),
Views
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
buildings: Hotel Wilcox
(geographic subject),
California
(states),
Hollywood
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1922/1932
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
1922/1932
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3160
Identifier
6914 (
accession number
), CHS-6914 (
call number
), CHS-6914 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-4121 (
legacy record id
), chs-m3160 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-3232 (
legacy record id
), 1-31-142 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
4121
Unique identifier
UC118950
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6914.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.8 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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