California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View looking west on Valley Boulevard from a point two-hundred feet east of the Southern Pacific Railroad crossing after improvement, ca.1930-1960

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View looking west on Valley Boulevard from a point two-hundred feet east of the Southern Pacific Railroad crossing after improvement, ca.1930-1960

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Photograph of a view looking west on Valley Boulevard from a point two-hundred feet east of the Southern Pacific Railroad crossing after improvement, ca.1930-1960. A t center, a narrow stretch of paved road bends to the right towards a set of railroad tracks. Three automobiles can be seen traversing the street. To the right, a lone man in a hat stands in a swath of mud. The edge of a hill is visible at left. Compares to USC-0-1-1-350, which shows a view before improvement.

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Title View looking west on Valley Boulevard from a point two-hundred feet east of the Southern Pacific Railroad crossing after improvement, ca.1930-1960

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Valley Boulevard (roadway)

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m351

Identifier 44007 (accession number), CHS-44007 (call number), CHS-44007 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3942 (legacy record id), chs-m351 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-349 (legacy record id), USC (project), 2620 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3942

Unique identifier UC117931

Legacy Identifier CHS-44007.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.6 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
47.3 cm × 33.9 cm at 300dpi

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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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