California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of 4th Street looking southeast from Grand Avenue, showing the intersection of 4th Street and Olive Street (center), Los Angeles, ca.1913

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View of 4th Street looking southeast from Grand Avenue, showing the intersection of 4th Street and Olive Street (center), Los Angeles, ca.1913

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Photograph of a view of 4th Street looking southeast from Grand Avenue, showing the intersection of 4th Street and Olive Street (center), Los Angeles, ca.1913. Residential houses and apartments populate the area in the foreground and on the block to the left. Commercial buildings cover the remaining areas. 4th Street slopes downward and levels off in the distance. Legible signs include: "the Wales apartments", "Hales good goods", "Grant building", "Montgomery Bros Jewelers", "Wetherby-Kayser Shoe Company, agents Johnston & Murphy for men, Liard Schober & Co. for women", "Crane Co.".

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Title View of 4th Street looking southeast from Grand Avenue, showing the intersection of 4th Street and Olive Street (center), Los Angeles, ca.1913

Subject Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), buildings (lcsh), Los Angeles -- General views (1914-1917) (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1913

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1913

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-m2662

Identifier 5806 (accession number), CHS-5806 (call number), CHS-5806 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3568 (legacy record id), chs-m2662 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3568

Unique identifier UC120721

Legacy Identifier CHS-5806.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.7 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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