California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Intersection of Reservoir Street (Silverlake Boulevard) and Sunset Boulevard looking south, showing the site of a proposed grade separation, 1931

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Intersection of Reservoir Street (Silverlake Boulevard) and Sunset Boulevard looking south, showing the site of a proposed grade separation, 1931

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Photograph of the intersection of Reservoir Street (Silverlake Boulevard) and Sunset Boulevard looking south, showing the site of a proposed grade separation, 1931. At center, the junction of the two roads is pictured, marked with a sign on a cleared lot that reads "Hollyway Theatre". Both streets slant slightly to the left, where in the distance, two billboards can be seen, one which reads "Sells-Floto Circus" and another "State Fair". Compares to USC-0-1-1-325, dated March 20, 1932.

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Title Intersection of Reservoir Street (Silverlake Boulevard) and Sunset Boulevard looking south, showing the site of a proposed grade separation, 1931

Subject Automobiles -- Maintenance and repair (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Sunset Boulevard (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets -- Maintenance and repair (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Sunset Boulevard & Reservoir Street (Silverlake Boulevard) (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1931-09-05

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 1931-09-05

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m326

Identifier 43995 (accession number), CHS-43995 (call number), CHS-43995 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3918 (legacy record id), chs-m326 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-324 (legacy record id), USC (project), 3692 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3918

Unique identifier UC117916

Legacy Identifier CHS-43995.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
48.3 cm × 34.3 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

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