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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Broadway looking north from Sixth Street, Los Angeles, June 1928
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View of Broadway looking north from Sixth Street, Los Angeles, June 1928
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Description
Photograph of a view of Broadway looking north from Sixth Street, Los Angeles, June 1928. Automobiles and cable-cars navigate the road, lined to either side by sign-laden highrise buildings. To the right, the Broadway Arcade Building can be seen two buildings in from the foreground, the Silverwood clothing building in front of it. To the left the Swelldum and the Metropolitan are prominently visible. Other legible signs include: "The Owl Drug Co.", "No Parking 4:30PM to 6PM", "Entrance 6th Street", "Moss Gloves Hosiery", "Millinery", "The 5 [...] Store Walker", "Go", "The Trial with Mary [...]", "C.J. Pearce Manager", "The American Sign Co.", "Leighton Cafeteria", "Parker System Dentists", "Arcade Theater", "Examiner", "Birkel Music Co.", and "Printing".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Broadway looking north from Sixth Street, Los Angeles, June 1928
Subject
buildings
(adlf),
cableways
(adlf),
Electric railroads
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 5th to 6th
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
C.P. Pearce
(manmade features),
California
(states),
Examiner
(manmade features),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Maximes
(manmade features),
Metropolitan
(manmade features),
Owl Drug Company
(manmade features),
South Broadway & West 6th Street
(roadway),
Swelldom
(manmade features),
Taits
(manmade features),
USA
(countries),
W. Sullivan School
(manmade features)
Temporal Subject
1928-06
Type
images
Format
4 photographs : photonegatives, transparency b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(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
1928-06
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-m112
Identifier
6973 (
accession number
), CHS-6973 (
call number
), CHS-6973 (
filename
), isla id: S-68 (
identifying number
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-1806 (
legacy record id
), chs-m112 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-116 (
legacy record id
), 1-2-117 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
1806
Unique identifier
UC117451
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6973.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
14.0 in × 17.6 in at 300dpi
35.5 cm × 44.8 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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