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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Temple Street looking east near Hill street, showing City hall, ca.1930-1960
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View of Temple Street looking east near Hill street, showing City hall, ca.1930-1960
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Description
Photograph of a view of Temple Street looking east near Hill street, showing City hall, ca.1930-1960. At center, a wide, paved road extends into the left distance where automobiles can be seen. At right, the tower of City hall can be seen, next to the Courthouse, Hall of Justice and Hall of Records. Legible signs from left to right read: "Now Sweeping the West! Without 3 cents [...]", "Los Angeles Theater [...] Matinees 15 cents, Evenings 25 cents", and "Make Today our Tomorrow [...] Bank of America".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Temple Street looking east near Hill street, showing City hall, ca.1930-1960
Subject
Automobiles
(lcsh),
buildings
(lcsh),
cities
(adlf),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Temple Street
(file heading),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Temple Street & Hill Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1930/1960
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm.
(aacr2),
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
1930/1960
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-m337
Identifier
42185 (
accession number
), CHS-42185 (
call number
), CHS-42185 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-3928 (
legacy record id
), chs-m337 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-335 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
3928
Unique identifier
UC117949
Legacy Identifier
CHS-42185.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.4 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
46.7 cm × 33.3 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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