California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Compton Boulevard from Willobrook Avenue during the flood of 1914

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View of Compton Boulevard from Willobrook Avenue during the flood of 1914

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Photograph of a view of Compton Boulevard from Willobrook Avenue during the flood of 1914. Tramped mud can be seen between the two streetcar rails that cut from left to right across the foreground, while a pile of strewn lumber can be seen just behind it to the right. In the background, commercial buildings can be seen to either side of the sodden street, a church visible to the left behind the foliage of a tree. Water still appears to be flowing over the road in a thin sheet.

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Title View of Compton Boulevard from Willobrook Avenue during the flood of 1914

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 & Willowbrook Avenue (roadway), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1914

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 1914

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2623

Identifier 12730 (accession number), CHS-12730 (call number), CHS-12730 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3535 (legacy record id), chs-m2623 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-2685 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3535

Unique identifier UC120769

Legacy Identifier CHS-12730.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.8 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
42.7 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

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