California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Pershing Square (formerly 6th Street park) looking southeast from Normal School (the present site of the Biltmore Hotel) showing St. Paul’s Cathedral and First Methodist Episcopal Church, ca.1883

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Pershing Square (formerly 6th Street park) looking southeast from Normal School (the present site of the Biltmore Hotel) showing St. Paul’s Cathedral and First Methodist Episcopal Church, ca.1883

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Birdseye view of the Pershing Square (formerly 6th Street park) looking southeast from Normal School (the present site of the Biltmore Hotel) showing St. Paul’s Cathedral and First Methodist Episcopal Church, ca.1883 The First Methodist Episcopal Church can be seen at north-east corner of Hill Street and Sixth Street; St. Paul's Cathedral is visible on Olive Street, between Fifth and Sixth Street. Saint Vincent College is also visible.

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Title Pershing Square (formerly 6th Street park) looking southeast from Normal School (the present site of the Biltmore Hotel) showing St. Paul’s Cathedral and First Methodist Episcopal Church, ca.1883

Subject buildings (adlf), Hill Street (file heading), Parks (Pershing Square) (file heading), Parks (Pershing Square) (lcsh), Pershing Square (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 6th Street and Hill Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties)

Temporal Subject 1883

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 16.5 x 21.5 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1883

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-m12721

Identifier 115 (accession number), CHS-115 (call number), CHS-115 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12057 (legacy record id), chs-m12721 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12057

Unique identifier UC131164

Legacy Identifier CHS-115.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.5 in × 14.1 in at 300dpi
47.2 cm × 35.9 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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