California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Children on Western Avenue south of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, ca.1906

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Children on Western Avenue south of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, ca.1906

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Photograph of children on Western Avenue south of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, ca.1906. A group of four children made up of two girls and two boys stand in the unpaved road to either side of baskets affixed with large, spoked wheels, roughly as tall as they are. The road continues into the left background. A three-story house is visible behind them. Telephone poles stand alongside the road. Houses and crop rows can be seen on the hills in the distance. Mountains are visible in the background.

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Title Children on Western Avenue south of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, ca.1906

Subject Children (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Hollywood -- Streets (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Hollywood (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Western Avenue & Sunset Boulevard (roadway)

Temporal Subject 1906

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographic prints (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 1906

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3352

Identifier 6548 (accession number), CHS-6548 (call number), CHS-6548 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4308 (legacy record id), chs-m3352 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3424 (legacy record id), 1-11-6 (microfiche number), 1-31-90 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4308

Unique identifier UC119006

Legacy Identifier CHS-6548.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.0 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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