California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

View of Main Street looking north from the Pacific Electric building, with snow-capped San Gabriel Mountains in view, Los Angeles, ca. January 1, 1907

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View of Main Street looking north from the Pacific Electric building, with snow-capped San Gabriel Mountains in view, Los Angeles, ca. January 1, 1907

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Photograph of a view of Main Street looking north from the Pacific Electric building, with snow-capped San Gabriel Mountains in view, Los Angeles, ca. January 1, 1907. The cityscape is thriving with mostly commercial buildings. Notable buildings include Hotel Rosslyn (center) and the Union Lithograph Co. (foreground at right). Hotel Rosslyn stands on the corner of the 5th Street and Main Street intersection. The streets are filled with pedestrian and vehicle traffic.; Legible signs include: "[Silver]wood's $3.00 hats", "Merchants Trust Company building", "[...] Hanslor Co. Inc. grocers", "Hotel Rosslyn", "H. Raphael Co.", "Owl cigar, now 5¢, [...]nst Cigar Co., Pac-Coast distr's", "Ed Herwick", "G.A. Thiele, wallpaper, mound city paints and oils", "Varney & Green", "'thank you', Lily Cream, California sterilized, manufactured by Pacific Creamery Co., Los Angeles, California", "store your furniture & household goods, [...]olyear Warehouse Co., absolutely fireproof, 415-17-19 San Pedro St, trunks stored 25¢ a month", "Ed Herwick", "cutlers and grinders", "[W]ilson, [...]all", "suits pressed 50¢", "Gus T. Thomas, agent for real estate business opportunities, rentals, etc., 451 1/2, room 2", "New York tailor suits to order, alterations, cleaning, pressing, etc., for ladies and gents", "the [...] Allen Co.", "[...] 418 S. Broadway, [...]", "Wells Fargo & Co. Express", "Barker Bros. furniture, [...]ts, [drape]ries", "Western Wholesale [...] Co.", "M[c]Clellas Ranst Co., pictures, frames, art novelties, 111, 113", "Hotel Butler", "[...] Electric Co.", "The Union Lithograph Co., B.S. Hubbard, pres. And manager, successors to Los Angeles Lithograph Co., lithographers, printers, binders, steel die and copper plate engraving and printing, agents Schmidt Litho. Co., labels and cartons", "[...] Reynolds Co., hardware, oil well supplies", "Blake[...] Pape[...]".

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Title View of Main Street looking north from the Pacific Electric building, with snow-capped San Gabriel Mountains in view, Los Angeles, ca. January 1, 1907

Subject roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Main Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1907-01-01

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1907-01-01

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2652

Identifier 5815 (accession number), CHS-5815 (call number), CHS-5815 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3560 (legacy record id), chs-m2652 (legacy record id), 1-6-132 (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3560

Unique identifier UC120776

Legacy Identifier CHS-5815.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.7 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
42.4 cm × 34.0 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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