California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Broadway looking south from 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1926

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View of Broadway looking south from 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1926

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Photograph of a view of Broadway looking south from Ninth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1926. Automobiles drive through the center of the wide street, as well as park on either side of it. To the right, the Western Pacific Building at 1031 South Broadway is visible above the shorter buildings in front of it, in which is included the Gilbert Thayer Auditorium. Legible signs include: "California Gas Co.", "The New Studebaker / Paul C. Hoffman Co.", "We Sell Homes [...]", "Rooms", "L.A. Chiropractic", "Chamber of Commerce", "Garage", "Auto Park 20¢", "Stop" and "Examine". Picture file card reads: "See duplicate #6374".

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Title View of Broadway looking south from 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1926

Subject Auditoriums (lcsh), Gilbert Thayer Auditorium (subject), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 9th to Olympic (file heading), roadways (adlf), Stores, Retail (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 1031 South Broadway (roadway), California (states), California Gas Company (manmade features), Chamber of Commerce (manmade features), Downtown Los Angeles (city or populated place), Gilbert Thayer Auditorium (manmade features), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Western Pacific Building (manmade features)

Temporal Subject 1921/1931

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1921/1931

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-m149

Identifier 6773 (accession number), CHS-6773 (call number), CHS-6773 (filename), isla id: S-65 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1840 (legacy record id), chs-m149 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-152 (legacy record id), 1-2-103 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1840

Unique identifier UC117468

Legacy Identifier CHS-6773.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.3 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
44.0 cm × 35.1 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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