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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, June 1928
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View of Broadway looking north from Sixth Street, June 1928
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Description
Photograph of a view of Broadway looking north from Sixth Street, June 1928. The highrises of Silverwoods Clothing Company and the Broadway Arcade Building stand prominently at the right of the photograph, while automobiles, pedestrians and a streetcar navigate Broadway. More highrises extend down the street. Silverwoods flies an American flag from their roof. Legible signs include: "Painless Parker Dentist", "Parker System Dentists", "Clothing National Shirt Shops", "Leighton's Cafeteria", "Birkel Music Co.", "$3", "K.D. Stack" and "Hotel Services" which is pictured on the back of a car at left. To the right, a street sign reads "Left Turn Prohibited".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Broadway looking north from Sixth Street, June 1928
Subject
buildings
(adlf),
cities
(adlf),
Electric railroads
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 5th to 6th
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf),
Stores, Retail
(lcsh),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Broadway
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1928-06
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, 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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m114
Identifier
6968 (
accession number
), CHS-6968 (
call number
), CHS-6968 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-1807 (
legacy record id
), chs-m114 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-118 (
legacy record id
), 1-2-114 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
1807
Unique identifier
UC117445
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6968.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
14.0 in × 17.7 in at 300dpi
35.5 cm × 45.0 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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