California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Whittier Boulevard in Whittier, showing a milk truck, ca.1924

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View of Whittier Boulevard in Whittier, showing a milk truck, ca.1924

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Photograph of a view of Whittier Boulevard in Whittier, showing a milk truck, ca.1924. Automobiles are shown making their way up and down the boulevard. To the left, a man on a bicycle pedals towards the viewer. To the right, a lightly-colored Crescent Milk truck is parked along the sidwalk with a slew of other cars. In the extreme left foreground, a driver can be seen through the windshield of his car. One- and two-story brick commercial buildings line the street to either side, along with utility poles.; Legible signs from left to right include: "Prest-O-Lite Battery", "Joe's Expert Shoe Repairing", "Lunch. Pool", "Real Estate", "For Sale", "Belvedere Clothing Co.", "Drugs. Soda", "Maximo's Bakery. Hot Lunches, Tobacco & Cigars", "[...]rite Drug Store", "Dr. Karl M. Walz, Dentist", "Hume-Benson Land Co., Real Estate", "Lowrie Real Estate", "500 [...] Bacon", "Signs", "Belvedere Feed & Fuel Co.", and "J.M. Schatz Market. Our Motto: Quality First, Service Always".

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Title View of Whittier Boulevard in Whittier, showing a milk truck, ca.1924

Subject Los Angeles County -- Whittier -- Streets (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Belvedere Gardens (city or populated place), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Whittier (city or populated place), Whittier Boulevard (roadway)

Temporal Subject 1924

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m6804

Identifier 9064 (accession number), CHS-9064 (call number), CHS-9064 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6864 (legacy record id), chs-m6804 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6918 (legacy record id), 1-58- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6864

Unique identifier UC121731

Legacy Identifier CHS-9064.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.2 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
51.4 cm × 41.3 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

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