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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of streetcars on Broadway looking south from Fifth Street in downtown Los Angeles, ca.1908
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View of streetcars on Broadway looking south from Fifth Street in downtown Los Angeles, ca.1908
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Description
Photograph of a view of streetcars on Broadway looking south from Fifth Street in downtown Los Angeles, ca.1908. At center, two streetcars make their way down the road, one with a sign reading "Boyle Hts" and the other with "Downey Ave". At right, commercial buildings line the street, including the Los Angeles Examiner building. At left, horse-drawn carriages are visible making their way along the street.; Legible signs read: "Unique Theatre", "Hotel Pal"..., "Mattresses, furniture, rugs", "Meyer Block", "Your credit is good here, furniture", "Forve Peterbone Co.", "DuBois & Davidson", "509, Los Angeles Examiner, 511", "Caramel ice cream", and "Sarness everything".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of streetcars on Broadway looking south from Fifth Street in downtown Los Angeles, ca.1908
Subject
Electric railroads
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 5th to 6th
(file heading),
Los Angeles Examiner
(subject),
Newspapers
(lcsh),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
509 Broadway
(roadway),
Broadway & 5th Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1908
Type
images
Format
4 photographs : photonegative, glass photonegative, photoprint, transparency, b&w ; 13 x 10 cm., 26 x 21 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat),
transparencies
(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
1908
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m111
Identifier
2351 (
accession number
), CHS-2351 (
call number
), CHS-2351 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-1805 (
legacy record id
), chs-m111 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-115 (
legacy record id
), 1-2-25 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
1805
Unique identifier
UC117461
Legacy Identifier
CHS-2351.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
14.0 in × 17.3 in at 300dpi
35.5 cm × 44.1 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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