California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

One of the first successful types of streetcar used on the Second Street hill by the Los Angeles Railway Company at Central Avenue and Sixth Street looking west, West Lake Park, ca.1891

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One of the first successful types of streetcar used on the Second Street hill by the Los Angeles Railway Company at Central Avenue and Sixth Street looking west, West Lake Park, ca.1891

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Photograph of one of the first successful types of streetcar used on the Second Street hill by the Los Angeles Railway Company at Central Avenue and Sixth Street looking west, West Lake Park, ca.1891. The car stands empty at the center of an unpaved dirt road with six main open-air windows on each lengthwise side flanked by two smaller windows to the left and right. It's trolley pole extending to the trolley wire above it. A sign on the car reads "Transfers to All Parts of the City". Houses and utility poles are visible in the background. To the left, advertisement signs read "Everything in Wearables for Man, woman and Child, / [Ea]sy Payments [...] Broadway / [...] Dept. West of Ch[...]".

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Title One of the first successful types of streetcar used on the Second Street hill by the Los Angeles Railway Company at Central Avenue and Sixth Street looking west, West Lake Park, ca.1891

Subject Electric railroads (lcsh), Los Angeles Railway Company (subject), railroad features (adlf), Street-railroads (lcsh), Transportation -- Rail -- Street railroads -- Electric cars #2 (file heading), Transportation -- Street Railroads -- General (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 2nd Street (roadway), California (states), Central Avenue & Sixth Street (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1891

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), 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 1891

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12478

Identifier 7068 (accession number), CHS-7068 (call number), CHS-7068 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11964 (legacy record id), chs-m12478 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12633 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12634 (legacy record id), 1-120-41 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11964

Unique identifier UC131240

Legacy Identifier CHS-7068.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.4 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
46.8 cm × 33.8 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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