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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Cable car on Downey Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1887
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Cable car on Downey Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1887
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Description
Photograph of an open-air cable car (2 cars long), Downey Avenue (later North Broadway) and Avenue 20, Los Angeles, ca.1887. A group of about 50 people are clustered in and around the still cars. A brick building taller than one-story is visible behind at left. Other one-story buildings are visible behind at right.
Asset Metadata
Title
Cable car on Downey Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1887
Subject
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Downey Avenue
(file heading),
railroad features
(adlf),
Railroads, Cable
(lcsh),
Street-railroads
(lcsh),
Streets
(lcsh),
Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- Cable cars
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Downey Avenue (North Broadway) & Avenue 20
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1887
Type
images
Format
3 photographs : photoprints, b&w ; 16 x 21 cm., 20 x 25 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
1887
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-m175
Identifier
1570 (
accession number
), CHS-1570 (
call number
), CHS-1570 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-1866 (
legacy record id
), chs-m175 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12734 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-178 (
legacy record id
), 1-120-2 (
microfiche number
), 1-2-179 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
1866
Unique identifier
UC117613
Legacy Identifier
CHS-1570.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.3 in × 12.5 in at 300dpi
41.5 cm × 31.7 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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