California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the Richelieu Hotel, 120 [142?] S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1950

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Exterior view of the Richelieu Hotel, 120 [142?] S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1950

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Exterior view of the Richelieu Hotel, a former Bunker Hill residence, on Grand Avenue between First Street and Second Street, ca.1950. The hotel is shown in a halftone print on a flier or brochure, a caption above the image reads "Alphabet for booklovers", and beneath "Dawson's Book Shop, 550 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles 17, California". The 3-story Victorian dwelling itself is emblazoned with a decorative "R" over a covered semicircular front porch. The roof above is cone-shaped.; Dawson's Book Shop, founded in 1905, was the first antiquarian book store established in Los Angeles. It was located until 1952 at 627 South Grand Avenue, until 1968 at 550 South Figueroa Street, and thereafter at 535 North Larchmont Boulevard.

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Title Exterior view of the Richelieu Hotel, 120 [142?] S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1950

Subject buildings (adlf), Dawson's Book Shop (subject), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Hotels #4 (file heading), Richelieu Hotel (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Bunker Hill (city or populated place), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), South Grand Avenue (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1950

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 10 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat), relief halftones (prints) (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 1950

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-m1283

Identifier 13063 (accession number), CHS-13063 (call number), CHS-13063 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2158 (legacy record id), chs-m1283 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1328 (legacy record id), 1-13- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2158

Unique identifier UC117996

Legacy Identifier CHS-13063.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.5 in × 16.9 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 43.0 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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