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Aerial view of the Famous Players-Laskey studios, ca.1918
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Aerial view of the Famous Players-Laskey studios, ca.1918
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Description
Photograph an aerial view of the Famous Players-Laskey studios, ca.1918. The studios are in the foreground and are composed of many white-roofed buildings very close together. Around the studio, the streets are densely lined with trees and most of the buildings are residential. In the upper right corner is a small orchard, and in the background are several large, open fields, possibly for agricultural use.
Asset Metadata
Title
Aerial view of the Famous Players-Laskey studios, ca.1918
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Date Created
1918
Subject
Famous Players Lasky's Studios
(subject),
Los Angeles -- Hollywood -- Studios
(file heading),
Motion picture studios
(lcsh),
residential sites
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Hollywood
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Sunset Boulevard & Vine Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1918
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-m3427
Identifier
9910 (
accession number
), CHS-9910 (
call number
), CHS-9910 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-4380 (
legacy record id
), chs-m3427 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-3501 (
legacy record id
), 1-23-137 (
microfiche number
), 1-31-236 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
4380
Unique identifier
UC118951
Legacy Identifier
CHS-9910.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
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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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