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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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A view of the palm trees and large homes that line Chester Place, looking north from Adams Street, Los Angeles, ca.1915
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A view of the palm trees and large homes that line Chester Place, looking north from Adams Street, Los Angeles, ca.1915
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Description
Photograph of a view of the palm trees and large homes that line Chester Place, looking north from Adams Street, Los Angeles, ca.1915. The large palm trees that line the street appear to have vines entwining around their trunks. Smaller palms, trees and bushes are planted intermittently between the large palm trees. The gables, roofs and windows of several large houses are visible in the background. The road runs from the right foreground into the right background.
Asset Metadata
Title
A view of the palm trees and large homes that line Chester Place, looking north from Adams Street, Los Angeles, ca.1915
Subject
Architecture, Domestic
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Chester Place
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Adams Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Chester Place
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1915
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
photographic prints
(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
1915
Creator
C.C. Pierce & Co.
(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-m168
Identifier
5506 (
accession number
), CHS-5506 (
call number
), CHS-5506 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-1859 (
legacy record id
), chs-m168 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-171 (
legacy record id
), 1-91- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
1859
Unique identifier
UC117395
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5506.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.8 in × 15.0 in at 300dpi
47.8 cm × 38.2 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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