California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Central Building on the corner of Sixth Street and Main Street, Los Angeles, ca.1912

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Central Building on the corner of Sixth Street and Main Street, Los Angeles, ca.1912

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Photograph of the Central Building on the corner of Sixth Street and Main Street, Los Angeles, ca.1912. This 12-story building is decorated with a variety of ornamental reliefs. The name "Central Building" is engraved above the two main entrances, just below the cantilevers. Above the cantilevers is a pair of short lamp poles and glass globes (?). Signs are visible on the windows of the first three floors and the top floor of the building. At right, looking west down Sixth Street, there are four early-model cars and four bicycles parked along the street. At left, looking south down Main Street, there are four early-model cars and four horse-drawn carriages parked. About a dozen pedestrians are on or near the sidewalks. Two men stand next to the corner street lamp where just below the lamps are the street signs: "S. Main St." and "W. Sixth St.". Street car tracks curve around the corner of the street.; Legible signs include: "[furn]ished Rooms, Hotel Madison", "Edw. Germain W...e Co.", "Benson Hardware Co.", "Peerless Cafeteria", "Pool 2 ..., Kelly Roth, Pool 2 ...", "Wells Fargo & Co. Express", "Occidental Life", "Illinois Central Railroad", "Cons...", "Ed...", "Southern Pacific", "Corcoran Lands", "Edwin T. Ear...", "Main Street ...".

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Title Central Building on the corner of Sixth Street and Main Street, Los Angeles, ca.1912

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), buildings (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- General -- Central Building (file heading), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- General #2 (file heading), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Main Street (roadway), Sixth Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1912

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1912

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-m1041

Identifier 5053 (accession number), CHS-5053 (call number), CHS-5053 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1925 (legacy record id), chs-m1041 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1077 (legacy record id), 1-6-115 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1925

Unique identifier UC117465

Legacy Identifier CHS-5053.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.0 in × 17.3 in at 300dpi
35.5 cm × 43.9 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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