California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View looking south on Broadway from First Street in downtown Los Angeles, 1904-1905

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View looking south on Broadway from First Street in downtown Los Angeles, 1904-1905

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Photograph of a view looking south on Broadway from First Street in downtown Los Angeles, 1904-1905. At center, a streetcar with a sign that reads "Boyle Hts" makes its way along one of two sets of tracks in the narrow dirt street. At left, horse-drawn carts line the sidewalk. To either side, four-story commercial buildings encapsulate the scene.; Visible buildings include: the Chamber of Commerce Building, City Hall, Mason Opera House. Legible signs include: "Allan Hunter, Eagle Stables", "Gilt eggs & butter", "Homer Laughlin, absolutely"..., "H.L. Smith, contractor", ..."Merchant's Trust Co."..., and "C.H. Frost Building".

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Title View looking south on Broadway from First Street in downtown Los Angeles, 1904-1905

Subject Electric railroads (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 1st to 2nd (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Broadway & 1st Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1904/1905

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photoprint, photonegative, b&w ; 25 x 20 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 1904/1905

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-m52

Identifier 2349 (accession number), CHS-2349 (call number), CHS-2349 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1745 (legacy record id), chs-m52 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-55 (legacy record id), 1-2-24 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1745

Unique identifier UC117456

Legacy Identifier CHS-2349.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.0 in × 17.5 in at 300dpi
35.5 cm × 44.5 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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