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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Angels Flight at the Hill Street tunnel, ca.1907
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Angels Flight at the Hill Street tunnel, ca.1907

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Photograph of Angels Flight at the Hill Street tunnel, ca.1907. One car is near the top, the other near the bottom termanal of the Flight. Also shown is the tower and the surrounding buildings. A horse-drawn carriages move through the tunnel. About ten pedestrians are on the sidewalk and in the street. Angels Flight is on the left side of the tunnel while narrow stairs run up the right side. Streetcar rails are visible in the street in the foreground. Legible signs include: "The Hubler Apartments", "S. Hill St.", "Notice, $100.00 fine for riding, driving or propelling any vehicle faster than eight (8) miles per hour in this tunnel, see ordinance 15775"..., "Hotel"..., "Gl[...], 409", "Vegetarian Cafeteria", ..."8,000 [...] juice"..., "Furnished", ..."oe, [...]8".; "Angel's Flight -- Third and Hill Street -- owned by Col. J.W. Eddy -- in 1901 he was granted a 30 year franchise -- at the expiration in 1931 he was granted a 10 year extension with 90 day notice clause"... 
Asset Metadata
Title Angels Flight at the Hill Street tunnel, ca.1907 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1907 
Subject General Subjects -- Transportation -- Street Railways  (subject), Hill Street  (subject), Transportation  (subject), Transportation  (lcsh), Transportation -- Rail  (subject), transportation features  (adlf) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place 3rd Street (roadway), California (states), Hill Street (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1907 
Type images
Format 2 photographs : photonegative, glass photonegative, b&w ; 25 x 20 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), negatives (photographic) (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) 
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-m15450 
Identifier 2473 (accession number), CHS-2473 (call number), CHS-2473 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-14308 (legacy record id), chs-m15450 (legacy record id), 1-120-96 (microfiche number) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 14308 
Unique identifier UC143861 
Legacy Identifier CHS-2473.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 15.3 in × 19.1 in at 300dpi
38.9 cm × 48.6 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 
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