California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Panoramic view of Los Angeles, looking north from the Huntington Building, ca.1904

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Panoramic view of Los Angeles, looking north from the Huntington Building, ca.1904

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Photograph of a panoramic view of Los Angeles, looking north from the Huntington Building, ca.1904. Visible in the cityscape are many commercial and a few residential buildings. Prominent buildings are the Los Angeles High School (in the distant center), Hotel Lexington (center right), and the Barker Bros Building (center left). Main Street, a prominent feature, is alive with pedestrian, horse carriage and streetcar traffic. Mountains can be seen beyond the distant hills.; The product labels of two billboards advertisements have been edited out. Still legible, they read: "Wilson Whiskey, that's all", "Owl Cigars". Other legible signs include: "Los Angeles Lithographic Co., labels, stationery, book binding, printing", "500, Lee Bros, jewelers, money brokers", "H. Raphael Co.", "furnished rooms", "5 cents, now 5 cents", "Phil[...] furniture", "Fraternal, Real Estate, Loans and Investment Co., [...]", "Hotel Lexington", "[...]rosslyn", "[...] Hardware C[o.]", "Barker Bros, furniture, carpets, draperies", "[...] d Bros, [c]lothiers, [...]5 -- S. Spring", "Geo J. Birkel [...] Steinwa[...], and other high grand pianos", "the Ang-el-us".

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Title Panoramic view of Los Angeles, looking north from the Huntington Building, ca.1904

Subject cities (adlf), Huntington Building (subject), Los Angeles -- General Views -- 1900 (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1904

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), photographic prints (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 1904

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-m2667

Identifier 5082 (accession number), CHS-5082 (call number), CHS-5082 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3573 (legacy record id), chs-m2667 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2732 (legacy record id), 1-6-116 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3573

Unique identifier UC120599

Legacy Identifier CHS-5082.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.9 in × 16.1 in at 300dpi
50.7 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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