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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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First Street Entrance to the Pacific Electric Subway Tunnel under construction between First Street and Glendale Boulevard, ca.1926
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First Street Entrance to the Pacific Electric Subway Tunnel under construction between First Street and Glendale Boulevard, ca.1926
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Description
Photograph of the First Street Entrance to the Pacific Electric Subway Tunnel under construction between First Street and Glendale Boulevard, ca.1926. Smoke billows out of the smokestack of a back hoe as it moves soil in a depression dug out of the ground pictured at center. A man stands next to an early pickup truck situated beside it while a second pickup is just visible in the right foreground. Spectators watch the construction from the road above and to the left. A hill is visible in the background on which an automobile can be seen driving, and houses are situated.
Asset Metadata
Title
First Street Entrance to the Pacific Electric Subway Tunnel under construction between First Street and Glendale Boulevard, ca.1926
Subject
Building
(lcsh),
Hills
(lcsh),
Pacific Electric Railway
(subject),
Steam-shovels
(lcsh),
Street-railroads
(lcsh),
Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- General
(file heading),
transportation features
(adlf),
Tunnels
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
First Street & Glendale Boulevard
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1926
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
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
1926
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12397
Identifier
6692 (
accession number
), CHS-6692 (
call number
), CHS-6692 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-11762 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12397 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12552 (
legacy record id
), 1-120-32 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
11762
Unique identifier
UC131258
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6692.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.4 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
44.4 cm × 34.8 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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