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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Birdseye view of Central Park, the oldest park in Los Angeles, ca.1880
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Birdseye view of Central Park, the oldest park in Los Angeles, ca.1880
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Description
Photograph of Central Park, the oldest park in Los Angeles, ca.1880. Bordered by Olive Street, 5th Street, 6th Street, and Hill Street, the park is fenced in with a low picket fence and surrounded by short trees. Several larger trees and small bushes are also planted within the park which later became known as Pershing Square after Gen. John J. Pershing. There is a large concrete area in the middle of the park, and several concrete walkways connect the center to the edges. On the blocks adjacent to the park mostly residential-type buildings can be seen, along with a one-story house in the foreground and a handful of larger two-story houses in the background. The words "Pershing Square" appear at top in the transparency, presumably added several years after the picture was taken in about 1880 since the park was not known as Pershing Square until Armistice Day, 1918.
Asset Metadata
Title
Birdseye view of Central Park, the oldest park in Los Angeles, ca.1880
Subject
Los Angeles -- Parks -- Pershing Square (Central Park)
(file heading),
Parks
(lcsh),
Parks
(adlf),
Pershing Square
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
5th Street & Olive Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1880
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 26 x 21 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)
Date Created
1880
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-m3653
Identifier
9588 (
accession number
), CHS-9588 (
call number
), CHS-9588 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-4587 (
legacy record id
), chs-m3653 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-3729 (
legacy record id
), 1-5-85 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
4587
Unique identifier
UC119125
Legacy Identifier
CHS-9588.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.1 in × 20.2 in at 300dpi
40.9 cm × 51.4 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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