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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Crescenta Block on Downey Avenue at Truman Street, Los Angeles, ca.1885-1886
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View of Crescenta Block on Downey Avenue at Truman Street, Los Angeles, ca.1885-1886
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Description
Photograph of the Crescenta Block on Downey Avenue (later North Broadway) at Truman Street (later Avenue 23), Los Angeles, ca.1885-1886. The two-story wooden building with a sign reading "Crescenta Block, 1885" was owned by G.F. Lemberger, later became a Federal branch of the California Bank. A horse-drawn wagon sits in front of the building. Across the street, at left center, the two-story brick building was owned by James Hanley and occupied by Dr. Allan Schless as a drug store. At extreme left is the one-story Stockwell Brothers Grocery store. A line of trees grows at right beside the Crescenta Block and across the street between the grocery store and drug store. Perspective is from under the spreading branches of a large tree on the near side of the street. Legible signs include ..."Groceries", "Fish and poultry".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Crescenta Block on Downey Avenue at Truman Street, Los Angeles, ca.1885-1886
Subject
buildings
(lcsh),
commercial sites
(adlf),
Crescenta Block
(subject),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- General -- Crescenta Block
(file heading),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- General #2
(file heading),
Stores
(subject),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Downey Avenue & Truman Street
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1885/1886
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
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
1885/1886
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-m1066
Identifier
3660 (
accession number
), CHS-3660 (
call number
), CHS-3660 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-1948 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1066 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-1102 (
legacy record id
), 1-2-184 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
1948
Unique identifier
UC117455
Legacy Identifier
CHS-3660.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
45.7 cm × 34.7 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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