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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Cornerstone laying ceremony at Chamber of Commerce Building, between 1st Street and 2nd Street on Broadway, 1903
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Cornerstone laying ceremony at Chamber of Commerce Building, between 1st Street and 2nd Street on Broadway, 1903
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Description
Photograph of the cornerstone laying ceremony at Chamber of Commerce Building, between 1st Street and 2nd Street on Broadway, 1903. A marching band stands at parade rest in front of a large crowd of spectators. Spectators not only filled the streets, sidewalks, but also the balconies, roofs and fire escape ladder wells of the Chamber of Commerce building and nearby buildings as well. Several American flags can be seen draped along the side of the Chamber of Commerce building at right, and another flag is also visible in the foreground at right.; Legible signs include: "[...]och Bro's, West Virginia, lean lasting chew, reform in tabacco, cool sweet smoke, [...]ail pouch", "Bryson Block", "Un[derwood] stand[...] vis[...] typewriter, f[...]er br[...] [...]agent", "The Herald, always on top, Stromee", "'Vorwaerts!', watch us grow, the new Chamber of Commerce, the old reliable Los Angeles Times ("Times" was edited out), a full grown newspaper but no 'organ'", "Johnston did it", "Busch the hatter".
Asset Metadata
Title
Cornerstone laying ceremony at Chamber of Commerce Building, between 1st Street and 2nd Street on Broadway, 1903
Subject
Bands (Music)
(lcsh),
buildings
(lcsh),
buildings
(adlf),
Chamber of Commerce
(subject),
Corner stones, Laying of
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 1st to 2nd
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Broadway & 2nd Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1903
Type
images
Format
1 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 11 x 13 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1903
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
(photographer)
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-m82
Identifier
5097 (
accession number
), CHS-5097 (
call number
), CHS-5097 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-1776 (
legacy record id
), chs-m82 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-87 (
legacy record id
), 1-2-47 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
1776
Unique identifier
UC117363
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5097.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.0 in × 15.8 in at 300dpi
50.9 cm × 40.1 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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