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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Exterior view of San Pedro's Municipal Building, 1910-1920
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Exterior view of San Pedro's Municipal Building, 1910-1920
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Description
Photograph of an exterior view of San Pedro's Municipal Building, 1910-1920. The Romanesque building is at left and is a two-story structure with a massive dome on the roof. A set of four columns supports an overhang over the front porch at left. Two stairways are visible leading up to entrances to the building. In the background at right is San Pedro Harbor, and several large ships can be seen in the water. Several sets of railroad tracks run behind the building, and many boxcars are visible. A low wooden building behind the municipal building houses a hardware company.; This building was erected in 1908 as San Pedro's City Hall, just one year before the consolidation of the City of San Pedro with the City of Los Angeles. Thereafter it functioned as a Municipal Building up until it was removed about 1928 for the construction of the present-day Municipal Building. The fine dome was a distinctive feature of the skyline and is sometimes confused with the domed building of the Carnegie Library of San Pedro which stood only about two blocks away to the south on Park Plaza.
Asset Metadata
Title
Exterior view of San Pedro's Municipal Building, 1910-1920
Subject
Boats and boating
(lcsh),
buildings
(lcsh),
buildings
(adlf),
City of San Pedro
(subject),
Islands
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- Architecture -- General
(file heading),
Los Angeles City -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- LA Harbor -- General
(file heading),
Railroads
(lcsh),
ships
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries),
Wilmington
(city or populated place)
Temporal Subject
1910/1920
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
1910/1920
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-m1016
Identifier
14495 (
accession number
), CHS-14495 (
call number
), CHS-14495 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-1905 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1016 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-1048 (
legacy record id
), 1-50- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
1905
Unique identifier
UC117365
Legacy Identifier
CHS-14495.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.7 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
50.1 cm × 40.7 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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