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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Wells Fargo Express Company building on the corner of Main Street and Market Street, ca.1890
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Wells Fargo Express Company building on the corner of Main Street and Market Street, ca.1890
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Description
Photograph of the exterior of the Wells Fargo Express Company building on the corner of Main Street and Market Street, ca.1890. On the sidewalk men are standing and the street is crowded with about twenty people and four horse-drawn wagons. Other stores include: Desmonds, a hat shop, and a cigar store. Legible signs include: ..."Law office", ..."Court", "Cigars, wholesale", "Wells Fargo & Co's Express", "Tobacco", "Hat store", ..."& C. Hubbell Law Office", ..."at law".
Asset Metadata
Title
Wells Fargo Express Company building on the corner of Main Street and Market Street, ca.1890
Subject
Banks and banking
(lcsh),
buildings
(adlf),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Banks
(file heading),
Wells Fargo Express Company
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Main Street & Market Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1890
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1890
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-m1218
Identifier
1864 (
accession number
), CHS-1864 (
call number
), CHS-1864 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2096 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1218 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-1264 (
legacy record id
), 1-6-1 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2096
Unique identifier
UC118057
Legacy Identifier
CHS-1864.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.2 in × 13.0 in at 300dpi
43.9 cm × 33.2 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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