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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Belmont Hotel on fire at the corner of Belmont Street and First Street, Los Angeles, December 16, 1887
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Belmont Hotel on fire at the corner of Belmont Street and First Street, Los Angeles, December 16, 1887
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Description
Photograph of the Belmont Hotel on fire at the corner of Belmont Street and First Street, Los Angeles, December 16, 1887. While firemen hose down the hotel, people are shown milling around on the lawn which is covered with assorted sheets, furniture, etc. The Hotel was a great tourist resort at that time and was later the site of Belmont High School.
Asset Metadata
Title
Belmont Hotel on fire at the corner of Belmont Street and First Street, Los Angeles, December 16, 1887
Subject
Accidents
(lcsh),
Belmont Hotel
(subject),
buildings
(adlf),
Disasters
(lcsh),
Fires
(lcsh),
Hotels, taverns, etc.
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Hotels #2
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Belmont Street & 1st Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1887-12-16
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, glass photonegative, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm., 13 x 21 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1887-12-16
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-m1246
Identifier
2501 (
accession number
), CHS-2501 (
call number
), CHS-2501 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2123 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1246 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-1291 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2123
Unique identifier
UC118044
Legacy Identifier
CHS-2501.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.2 in × 12.6 in at 300dpi
41.3 cm × 32.0 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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