California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

View of Front Street looking south in San Pedro, ca.1905

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View of Front Street looking south in San Pedro, ca.1905

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Photograph of a view of Front Street looking south in San Pedro, ca.1905. A section of post-and-wire fence is pictured in the left foreground, guarding the edge of a steep incline that leads down into the unpaved Front Street. To the right of center, a man can be seen walking towards a side of the street lined with commercial buildings, while farther in the foreground at right, a billboard for Coca Cola can be seen. To the left, the tail end of a set of railroad cars can be seen behind a line of utility poles. The domed building of the Carnegie Library building can be seen on the hill in the distance, whilte farther in the foreground, a second domed building is City Hall.; Legible signs from left to right include: "Cannon's [...]", "Coasters Saloon", "M. Brown San Francisco Store", "Union Saloon", "Restaurant", "Emergency Hospital" and "Hotel Spokane".

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Title View of Front Street looking south in San Pedro, ca.1905

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1905

Subject buildings (lcsh), Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- Los Angeles Harbor -- General (file heading), Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- Streets (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Front Street (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), San Pedro (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1905

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 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)

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-m1024

Identifier 12921 (accession number), CHS-12921 (call number), CHS-12921 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1911 (legacy record id), chs-m1024 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1057 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14362 (legacy record id), 1-50- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1911

Unique identifier UC117615

Legacy Identifier CHS-12921.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.5 in × 12.2 in at 300dpi
42.0 cm × 31.0 cm at 300dpi

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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

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