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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 from Court House Hill, ca. early 1870's
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Birdseye view of Los Angeles from Court House Hill, ca. early 1870's
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Description
Photograph of a birdseye view of Los Angeles from Court House Hill, ca. early 1870's. The commercial and industrial area is shown, a number of high rise buildings advertising various things via signs posted on their exteriors. A lavish building with a central tower, possibly the Los Angeles Prison, is visible to the back left. A two-lane road is visible in the right background, along with mountains, where the residential area begins.
Asset Metadata
Title
Birdseye view of Los Angeles from Court House Hill, ca. early 1870's
Subject
cities
(adlf),
Los Angeles -- General views (1860-1870)
(file heading),
Main Street
(subject),
Views
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
mountains: Court House Hill
(geographic subject),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1865/1875
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
1865/1875
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-m2524
Identifier
7400 (
accession number
), CHS-7400 (
call number
), CHS-7400 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-3440 (
legacy record id
), chs-m2524 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-2586 (
legacy record id
), 1-6-34 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
3440
Unique identifier
UC120663
Legacy Identifier
CHS-7400.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.4 in × 14.6 in at 300dpi
46.7 cm × 37.3 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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