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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Pacific Electric Railway subway tunnel under construction at First Street and Glendale Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1926
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Pacific Electric Railway subway tunnel under construction at First Street and Glendale Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1926
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Description
Photograph of a Pacific Electric Railway subway tunnel under construction at First Street and Glendale Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1926. Workers stand in and along a wide ditch that a back hoe is digging at center, billowing smoke. Further forward, three men stand, two of them looking at the back hoe with their hands in their pockets to either side of the third man, who is leaning in toward the window of an early pickup truck. A hill can be seen in the background, from which steps and a railing descend to the left toward a widening road and a two-story house with clapboard veneer where the rest of the workers stand on the edge of the deep groove in the ground, watching.
Asset Metadata
Title
Pacific Electric Railway subway tunnel under construction at First Street and Glendale Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1926
Subject
Building
(lcsh),
Hills
(lcsh),
Pacific Electric Railway
(subject),
Steam-shovels
(lcsh),
Street-railroads
(lcsh),
Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- General
(file heading),
Tunnels
(lcsh),
Tunnels
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
1st Street & Glendale Boulevard
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1926
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 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),
Puck, Charles
(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-m12400
Identifier
6702 (
accession number
), CHS-6702 (
call number
), CHS-6702 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-11918 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12400 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12555 (
legacy record id
), 1-120-33 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
11918
Unique identifier
UC131322
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6702.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
13.5 in × 17.0 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 43.3 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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