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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Towne Avenue looking south from Fifth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1891
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Towne Avenue looking south from Fifth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1891
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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.
Asset Metadata
Title
Towne Avenue looking south from Fifth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1891
Subject
Automobiles
(lcsh),
Carriages and carts
(lcsh),
Dwellings
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Towne Avenue
(file heading),
residential sites
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Towne Avenue & 5th Street
(roadway),
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)
Date Created
1891
Creator
Garden City Photo
(photographer)
Contributor
Puck Collection
(provenance)
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-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
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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