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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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First Los Angeles jail and city hall
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First Los Angeles jail and city hall
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Description
Photograph of exterior of the first Los Angeles jail and city hall, west side of Spring Street on the corner of Franklin Street. About a dozen men stand in and around the doors under the roof overhang of the 1-story building. A horse-drawn wagon moves by going to the left. Originally built as a residence by Antonio Jose Rochea (Rocha?) and deeded to the city in 1855 by Rochea, Buenaventura Lopez, his wife, Jose Jorge Rocha, Guadalupe Valez, and his wife. Later used as a railroad ticket office and real estate office. Legible signs include: "31 Railroad tickets 31, bought, sold and exchanged, Pryke & Col, cut rates to all points", "31 Ben E. Ward 31, Real estate and insurance", "Caledonian Insurance Co. of Edinburgh, Scotland"..., "Ben E. Ward real estate and insurance, houses to rent, money to loan. For sale [...]. For rent [...]", "J.D. Dunlap, general commission lands & houses for sale and rent", "Potts and Covarrubias real estate agent, general auctioneer", address "33".
Asset Metadata
Title
First Los Angeles jail and city hall
Subject
Los Angeles City -- Architecture -- Public Buildings -- Court houses
(subject),
Public buildings
(subject),
Public buildings
(lcsh),
Railroads
(subject),
Spring Street
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
31 Spring Street
(roadway),
33 Spring Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Franklin Street & Spring Street
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1880
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 17 x 22 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
1880
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-m15242
Identifier
1860 (
accession number
), CHS-1860 (
call number
), CHS-1860 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-14083 (
legacy record id
), chs-m15242 (
legacy record id
), 1-9-14 (
microfiche number
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
14083
Unique identifier
UC143729
Legacy Identifier
CHS-1860.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.1 in × 13.0 in at 300dpi
43.6 cm × 33.1 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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