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