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Birdseye view of the cornerstone laying for the Chamber of Commerce building on Broadway and 1st Street, May 28, 1903
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Birdseye view of the cornerstone laying for the Chamber of Commerce building on Broadway and 1st Street, May 28, 1903
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Description
Photograph of a birdseye view looking down on several hundred people sitting and listening to a speaker at the cornerstone-laying of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce building on Broadway and lst Street, May 28, 1903. A man stands on a small stage holding a peice of paper in front of him as he speaks to the hundres of people gathered around him. Hundreds of people, dressed formally, sit in chairs forming a circular arrangement around the stage. The band, holding their instruments at ease, stand to the left of the stage.
Asset Metadata
Title
Birdseye view of the cornerstone laying for the Chamber of Commerce building on Broadway and 1st Street, May 28, 1903
Subject
buildings
(adlf),
Corner stones, Laying of
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 1st to 2nd
(file heading),
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
(subject),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Broadway
(roadway),
California
(states),
First Street
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1903-05-28
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)
Date Created
1903-05-28
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m55
Identifier
8447 (
accession number
), CHS-8447 (
call number
), CHS-8447 (
filename
), chs-m15009 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-1748 (
legacy record id
), chs-m55 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-58 (
legacy record id
), 1- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
1748
Unique identifier
UC117369
Legacy Identifier
CHS-8447.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.7 in × 15.8 in at 300dpi
50.1 cm × 40.3 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Description
The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.
We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
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