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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Greenleaf Avenue in Whittier looking south, Los Angeles, 1907
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Greenleaf Avenue in Whittier looking south, Los Angeles, 1907
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Description
Photograph of Greenleaf Avenue in Whittier looking south, Los Angeles, 1907. Horse-drawn carriages are parked along the sidewalks to either side of the wide, unpaved road. To the left, one of the striped canopies has dropped from the façade of a two-story shop. Utility poles support a net of streetcar cables over the road. Legible signs include: "First National Bank", "Restaurant", "[...] Pharmacy", "C.A. Rees Groceries", "Western Union Telegraph", "Whittier Public Library", "The Wiley B. Allen Co."Saunder's Bros. Cyclery", and "[...]an W. Ramsey / Photographer".
Asset Metadata
Title
Greenleaf Avenue in Whittier looking south, Los Angeles, 1907
Subject
Los Angeles County -- Whittier -- Streets
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh),
Views
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Greenleaf Avenue
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries),
Whittier
(city or populated place)
Temporal Subject
1907
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
1907
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m6800
Identifier
6756 (
accession number
), CHS-6756 (
call number
), CHS-6756 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-6860 (
legacy record id
), chs-m6800 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-6914 (
legacy record id
), 1-58-5 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
6860
Unique identifier
UC121796
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6756.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.3 in × 14.5 in at 300dpi
46.6 cm × 36.9 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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