View of Covina, "vista of the valley", taken from the end of Citrus Avenue, Covina, January 1929

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Photograph of a view of Covina, "vista of the valley", taken from the end of Citrus Avenue, Covina, January 1929. In the foreground, partially visible tree foliage at right shades a narrow dirt road. Beyond the road, an open field fills much of the right background, while an orchard begins farther towards the left. Back at right, a homestead is just visible on the ridge of a hill in the far distance.

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Title View of Covina, "vista of the valley", taken from the end of Citrus Avenue, Covina, January 1929

Subject land parcels (adlf), Los Angeles County -- Covina (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Citrus Avenue (roadway), Covina (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1929-01-21

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1929-01-21

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2731

Identifier 36964 (accession number), CHS-36964 (call number), CHS-36964 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3630 (legacy record id), chs-m2731 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3630

Unique identifier UC120701

Legacy Identifier CHS-36964.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.6 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
47.2 cm × 33.9 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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