California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Residential street Painter Avenue looking north towards the mountains in Whittier, ca.1924

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Residential street Painter Avenue looking north towards the mountains in Whittier, ca.1924

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Photograph of the residential street Painter Avenue looking north towards the mountains in Whittier, ca.1924. Bushy palm trees of the same height line the sidewalk to the right, behind which the porch of a one-story residential rancher-style home can be seen. At center, a topless automobile can be seen parked along the left side of the street while a van which reads "Motor Transit Stages" makes its way down the paved road. Farther back, more automobiles can be seen. In from the sidewalk to the left, a one-story modern-deco home can be seen with angular columns to either side of its entrance. Farther back, a two-story craftsman home is visible just in front of what appears to be the yard of a third home, where a car can be seen parked alongside a swatch of picket fence. The mountains are visible in the background, utility wires sloping down across their silhouette from the poles to the right.

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Title Residential street Painter Avenue looking north towards the mountains in Whittier, ca.1924

Subject Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), Dwellings (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Whittier -- Streets (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Painter Avenue (roadway), USA (countries), Whittier (city or populated place)

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-m6812

Identifier 9074 (accession number), CHS-9074 (call number), CHS-9074 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6872 (legacy record id), chs-m6812 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6926 (legacy record id), 1-58-8 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6872

Unique identifier UC121658

Legacy Identifier CHS-9074.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 29.0 in × 18.2 in at 300dpi
73.7 cm × 46.2 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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