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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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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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Description
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".
Asset Metadata
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
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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