California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Exterior view of the Bel-Air residence in Bel-Air, showing a parked automobile, [s.d.]

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Exterior view of the Bel-Air residence in Bel-Air, showing a parked automobile, [s.d.]

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Bel-Air residence in Bel-Air, showing a parked automobile, [s.d.]. A portion of the three-story Bel-Air residence fills the centerground of the image. The building, constructed in the Spanish Eclectic style of architecture, is comprised of two sections which meet at a slight angle in the center of the image. The first- and second-stories of the right section are faced in colonnades. An automobile is parked on the paved driveway that borders the residence in the center of the image, while palm trees sit in the left foreground.

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Title Exterior view of the Bel-Air residence in Bel-Air, showing a parked automobile, [s.d.]

Subject buildings (lcsh), residential sites (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Contributor Minnewa Bell Collection (provenance)

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-m20562

Identifier 31163 (accession number), CHS-31163 (call number), CHS-31163 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24436 (legacy record id), chs-m20562 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24436

Unique identifier UC130272

Legacy Identifier CHS-31163.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.1 in × 20.0 in at 300dpi
40.9 cm × 50.8 cm at 300dpi

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Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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