California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of a flooded Tamarind Street looking from Compton Boulevard in Compton, 1924

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View of a flooded Tamarind Street looking from Compton Boulevard in Compton, 1924

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Photograph of a view of a flooded Tamarind Street looking from Compton Boulevard in Compton, 1924. A street is shown, completely covered in water, the structures above mirrored on its surface. Commercial buildings can be seen to the left and right. Legible signs from left to right read: "Compton Auto Paint Stop Shop" and "Owl Truck".

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Title View of a flooded Tamarind Street looking from Compton Boulevard in Compton, 1924

Subject Floods (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Compton (file heading), roadways (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Compton (city or populated place), Compton Boulevard & Tamarind Street (roadway), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1924

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 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 1924

Contributor Gillingham, Robert C. (donor)

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-m2635

Identifier 12729 (accession number), CHS-12729 (call number), CHS-12729 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3546 (legacy record id), chs-m2635 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2698 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3546

Unique identifier UC120760

Legacy Identifier CHS-12729.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
43.1 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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