California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of the intersection of Whittier Boulevard and Ocean View Avenue, ca.1924

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View of the intersection of Whittier Boulevard and Ocean View Avenue, ca.1924

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Photograph of a view of the intersection of Whittier Boulevard and Ocean View Avenue, ca.1924. Cars are both parked along the street and making their way up and down along it while pedestrians traverse the sidewalk and cross the intersection. On the corner to the right, a woman in lightly-colored clothes stands waiting to cross, pushing a baby carriage. One- and two-story commercial buildings line the street to either side, along with utility poles.; Legible signs from left to right include: "F.M. Hale Hardware. Paints & Oils -- Stoves. Kitchen Supplies", "The Wonder Shoe Store", "Linn's Grocery", "Lucky Strikes: Now I know toasting gives a flavor that has them all lashed to the mast!", "Limbeck's Restaurant", "Rexall Drugs. Soda", "Tires", "Maximo Bakery. Hot Lunches, Tobacco & Cigars", "Hospital", "Belvedere [...] Department Store", "Dr. Karl M. Walz. Dentist", "All Nite Drug Store", "Bramel & Graham Kodak Finishing", "Gardens Radio. Parts, Sets, Supplies", "Hume-Benson Land Co. Real Estate", "Harris Press Printing", "Laguna Furniture", "Don't Forget the Belvedere Gardens Community Industrial Fair. Oct. 28th 1924", "Your Jeweler", and "Dr. C.C. Palmore, Optometrist".

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Title View of the intersection of Whittier Boulevard and Ocean View Avenue, 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), Ocean View Avenue (roadway), 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-m6801

Identifier 9057 (accession number), CHS-9057 (call number), CHS-9057 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6861 (legacy record id), chs-m6801 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6915 (legacy record id), 1-58- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6861

Unique identifier UC121746

Legacy Identifier CHS-9057.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.1 in × 16.1 in at 300dpi
51.1 cm × 40.9 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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