California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Birdseye view of Wilshire Boulevard showing Westlake Park (later MacArthur Park), [s.d.]

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Birdseye view of Wilshire Boulevard showing Westlake Park (later MacArthur Park), [s.d.]

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Photograph of a birdseye view of Wilshire Boulevard showing Westlake Park (later MacArthur Park), [s.d.]. The four-lane paved Wilshire is pictured cutting down the center of the image, bending around the swell of Westlake Park, which is pictured to the left. In the foreground, the back of a billboard can be seen to the left, while the front of one depicting an automobile is pictured in a second billboard to the right. The highrises of the city and the hills are visible in the distance.

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Title Birdseye view of Wilshire Boulevard showing Westlake Park (later MacArthur Park), [s.d.]

Subject Lakes (lcsh), Parks (lcsh), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Westlake Park (later MacArthur Park) (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm., 13 x 18 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)

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

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-m19930

Identifier 12875 (accession number), CHS-12875 (call number), CHS-12875 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19746 (legacy record id), chs-m19930 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19746

Unique identifier UC121863

Legacy Identifier CHS-12875.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.3 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
44.0 cm × 35.1 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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