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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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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 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 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) 
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-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 
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