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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Philadelphia Street looking east from Greenleaf Street in Whittier, ca.1924
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Philadelphia Street looking east from Greenleaf Street in Whittier, ca.1924
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Description
Photograph of a view of Philadelphia Street looking east from Greenleaf Street in Whittier, ca.1924. Early automobiles are paked diagonally in toward the sidewalks on either side of Philadelphia, while two lanes of moving cars make their way up and down the pavement. To the left, pedestrians can be seen windowshopping in full figure. In the right distance, the Hotel William Penn can be seen. What appear to be telephone wires stretch across the street.; Legible signs from left to right include: "Poinsettia", "Smith Bros. Music Co.", "L.A. Daniels, Dentist", "E.T. Stoddard, Jeweler", "Kandy", "Rees", "Drugs, Soda. Adams & [...]", "Cafe Teri[...]", "Real Estate", "Palmers Shoes", "Piggly Wiggly" and "Toggery. N.B. Whiter's Clothing, Shoes, Hats".
Asset Metadata
Title
Philadelphia Street looking east from Greenleaf Street in Whittier, ca.1924
Subject
Los Angeles County -- Whittier -- Streets
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh),
Views
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Philadelphia Street east from Greenleaf Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries),
Whittier
(city or populated place)
Temporal Subject
1924
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
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
1924
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-m6809
Identifier
9115 (
accession number
), CHS-9115 (
call number
), CHS-9115 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-6869 (
legacy record id
), chs-m6809 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-6923 (
legacy record id
), 1-58-9 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
6869
Unique identifier
UC121687
Legacy Identifier
CHS-9115.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
21.9 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
55.6 cm × 34.9 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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