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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Birdseye view of Los Angeles looking south from Figueroa Street, ca.1925
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Birdseye view of Los Angeles looking south from Figueroa Street, ca.1925

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Photograph of a birdseye view of Los Angeles looking south from Figueroa Street, ca.1925. The Union Oil Building is visible in the lower lefthand corner, sandwiched between Seventh Street and Grand Street, which are followed by Hope Street, Gower Street and Figueroa Street. Farther back on the same strip, the Hotel Trinity can be seen. To the left, across Seventh, the Hotel Stillwell can be seen, proclaiming itself "Fireproof" on its sign. Across Grand, the YMCA can be seen, while up and over Hope the Hotel Ritz is visible. Other highrise buildings fill the rest of the image. 
Asset Metadata
Title Birdseye view of Los Angeles looking south from Figueroa Street, ca.1925 
Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer) 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1925 
Subject cities  (adlf), Los Angeles -- General views -- Aerial (1920)  (file heading), Views  (lcsh) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place 7th Street (roadway), California (states), Figueroa Street (roadway), Gower Street (roadway), Grand Street (roadway), Hope Street (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1925 
Type images
Format 1 photographs : 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) 
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-m2719 
Identifier 9070 (accession number), CHS-9070 (call number), CHS-9070 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3619 (legacy record id), chs-m2719 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2783 (legacy record id), USC (project) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 3619 
Unique identifier UC120954 
Legacy Identifier CHS-9070.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 20.1 in × 16.1 in at 300dpi
51.2 cm × 40.9 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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