California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Los Angeles Times Building the day after its bombing, Los Angeles, October 1, 1910

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Los Angeles Times Building the day after its bombing, Los Angeles, October 1, 1910

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Photograph of the old Los Angeles Times Building the day after its bombing, Los Angeles, October 1, 1910. The three-story Romanesque brick building of the Times building stands, its windows blown out and its insides charred. A portion of it has collapsed to rubble in the left background. Banners posted around the remains read "Times Office Editorial Advertising / Subscription Departments / 531 South Spring Street". A crowd of onlookers is gathered around the debris. A man is visible from behind in the foreground. The building was located on First Street.

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Title Los Angeles Times Building the day after its bombing, Los Angeles, October 1, 1910

Subject Bombings (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Los Angeles -- Los Angeles Times disaster, 1910 and 1936 (file heading), Los Angeles Times (subject), Newspapers (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Broadway & First Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1910-10-01

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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 1910-10-01

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3458

Identifier 7500 (accession number), CHS-7500 (call number), CHS-7500 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4411 (legacy record id), chs-m3458 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3532 (legacy record id), 1-2-136 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4411

Unique identifier UC119057

Legacy Identifier CHS-7500.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.0 in × 10.7 in at 300dpi
35.6 cm × 27.4 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

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