View of Western Avenue looking north from Eighth Street, ca.1924

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Photograph of a view of Western Avenue looking north from Eighth Street, ca.1924. Cars move back and forth along the paved road in the center of the image: In the left foreground, an ice truck can be seen, while farther back the mailman can be seen crossing the street. On the corner to the left, the three-story brick Serling Parr Building houses commercial interests. On the right side of the road, a row of nearly-identical two-story houses can be seen, canopies extending from their windows. Utility poles line both sides of the street, some of which are posted with a banner that reads "Hugh J. Crawford". Mountains are visible in the distance.; Other legible signs from left to right include: "Rent", "Drugs", "Santa Fe Cigars", "Wilshire Fireproof Sh[...]", and "A Beautiful Roof [...]".

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Title View of Western Avenue looking north from Eighth Street, ca.1924

Creator C.C. Pierce & Co. (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1924

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), City traffic (lcsh), Ice (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Western Avenue (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Traffic congestion (lcsh), Trucks (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 8th Street (roadway), California (states), Koreatown (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Western Avenue (roadway)

Temporal Subject 1924

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)

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-m396

Identifier 9043 (accession number), CHS-9043 (call number), CHS-9043 (filename), isla id: S-9043 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3986 (legacy record id), chs-m396 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-394 (legacy record id), 1-11-21 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3986

Unique identifier UC118250

Legacy Identifier CHS-9043.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 21.0 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
53.4 cm × 34.0 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

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