California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Freshly repaved Sunset Boulevard, ca.1920-1960

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Freshly repaved Sunset Boulevard, ca.1920-1960

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Photograph of a freshly repaved Sunset Boulevard, ca.1920-1960. At center, two lanes of paved road are shown, split by a narrow rift that extends into the distance. Automobiles are visible on both the left and right, while at left, a house and a Richfield service station are visible. Palm trees line the sidewalks.

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Title Freshly repaved Sunset Boulevard, ca.1920-1960

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Automobiles -- Service stations (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Sunset Boulevard (file heading), Palms (lcsh), 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 (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1920/1960

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 1920/1960

Creator Los Angeles Department of Public Works (photographer)

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m324

Identifier 43996 (accession number), CHS-43996 (call number), CHS-43996 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3916 (legacy record id), chs-m324 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-322 (legacy record id), USC (project), 2986 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3916

Unique identifier UC117932

Legacy Identifier CHS-43996.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

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