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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Pershing Square looking north on Olive Street, showing the Auditorium Building, Los Angeles, ca.1920
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View of Pershing Square looking north on Olive Street, showing the Auditorium Building, Los Angeles, ca.1920
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Description
Photograph of a view of Pershing Square looking north on Olive Street, showing the Auditorium Building, Los Angeles, ca.1920. The sidewalks and central lawn of Pershing Square are visible in the foreground, with Olive Street on the left, obscured by a line of trees. The gothic architecture of the Auditorium Building can be seen in the background, also obscured by the square's trees. Several denizens sit on the park benches.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Pershing Square looking north on Olive Street, showing the Auditorium Building, Los Angeles, ca.1920
Subject
Auditorium Building
(subject),
Auditoriums
(lcsh),
buildings
(lcsh),
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),
buildings: Auditorium Building
(geographic subject),
California
(states),
land parcels: Pershing Square
(geographic subject),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1920
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)
Date Created
1920
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-m3663
Identifier
7196 (
accession number
), CHS-7196 (
call number
), CHS-7196 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-4597 (
legacy record id
), chs-m3663 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-3739 (
legacy record id
), 1-91- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
4597
Unique identifier
UC119243
Legacy Identifier
CHS-7196.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.8 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
47.7 cm × 35.0 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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