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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of traffic on Figueroa Street, looking north, November 1941
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View of traffic on Figueroa Street, looking north, November 1941
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Description
Photograph of a view of traffic on Figueroa Street, looking north, November 1941. Figueroa can be seen in the foreground and runs into the distance at right. A large number of automobiles crowd its four lanes, while more cars can be seen parked along the curbs on both sides of the street. In the background at enter, the four-story Walgrove Apartment building is visible. Utility wires cross over the street in a grid-like pattern.; Legible signs include, from left: "Car Wash", "Golden Eagle Gasolines Super Aviation Ethyl Ethyl90", "Hearn's Auto Park", "Go Farther Signal Gasoline More High Gear Miles", "Its got the town in a lather Swan", "Walgrove Apts", and "La Tosca Hotel".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of traffic on Figueroa Street, looking north, November 1941
Subject
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Figueroa
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Figueroa Street
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1941-11-09
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm.
(aacr2),
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
1941-11-09
Creator
Miller
(photographer)
Contributor
Foster & Kleiser
(contributor)
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-m226
Identifier
32965 (
accession number
), CHS-32965 (
call number
), CHS-32965 (
filename
), isla id: S-4695 (
identifying number
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2872 (
legacy record id
), chs-m226 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-226 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2872
Unique identifier
UC117256
Legacy Identifier
CHS-32965.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.6 in × 10.6 in at 300dpi
44.9 cm × 27.1 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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