Towne Avenue looking south from Fifth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1891

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Title Towne Avenue looking south from Fifth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1891

Description Photograph of Towne Avenue looking south from 5th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1891. Trees shade the sidewalk on both sides of this residential dirt street. Advertising billboards are posted on the fence at right. A couple of horse-drawn wagons are visible far down the street.

Creator Garden City Photo (photographer)

Contributor Puck Collection (provenance)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1891

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Carriages and carts (lcsh), Dwellings (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Towne Avenue (file heading), residential sites (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Towne Avenue & 5th Street (roadways), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1891

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (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)

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-m348

Identifier 4794 (accession number), CHS-4794 (call number), CHS-4794 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3939 (legacy record id), chs-m348 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-346 (legacy record id), 1-13-16 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3939

Unique identifier UC118036

Legacy Identifier CHS-4794.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.9 in × 12.7 in at 300dpi
42.9 cm × 32.5 cm at 300dpi

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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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