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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Birdseye view of Los Angeles looking northeast from the City Hall tower, ca.1931
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Birdseye view of Los Angeles looking northeast from the City Hall tower, ca.1931
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Description
Photograph of a birdseye view of Los Angeles looking northeast from the City Hall tower, ca.1931. There is heavy traffic on a wide street in the middle of the image; most of the other visible streets have fairly light traffic. The part of the city that is visible features many densely placed shops and other buildings, as well as a fair number of trees, especially in the lower left corner. In the background is a line of mountains, bare except for trees along the ridgeline. Legible signs include, from left, "Brunswig Drug Co. Wholesale Dr[uggists]", and "The Braun Co[mpany] Laboratory Outfits Mine Mill and Smelt Supplies".
Asset Metadata
Title
Birdseye view of Los Angeles looking northeast from the City Hall tower, ca.1931
Subject
cities
(adlf),
Los Angeles City -- General
(file heading),
Los Angeles City Hall
(subject),
Views
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1931
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
1931
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-m2680
Identifier
10216 (
accession number
), CHS-10216 (
call number
), CHS-10216 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-3585 (
legacy record id
), chs-m2680 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-2744 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
3585
Unique identifier
UC120728
Legacy Identifier
CHS-10216.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.5 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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