California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior of the Park View Hotel (Lake View Hotel?) overlooking Westlake Park (later MacArthur Park), as seen from the lake, Los Angeles, ca.1908

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Exterior of the Park View Hotel (Lake View Hotel?) overlooking Westlake Park (later MacArthur Park), as seen from the lake, Los Angeles, ca.1908

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Photograph of the exterior of the Park View Hotel (Lake View Hotel?) overlooking Westlake Park (later MacArthur Park), as seen from the lake, Los Angeles, ca.1908. Large trees dot the lawn between the lake and the embankment upon which the expansive three-story building is situated. Other buildings, mostly homes, are visible behind and beside the hotel. The lake is visible in the foreground.

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Title Exterior of the Park View Hotel (Lake View Hotel?) overlooking Westlake Park (later MacArthur Park), as seen from the lake, Los Angeles, ca.1908

Subject buildings (adlf), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Hotels #4 (file heading), Park View Hotel (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 6th Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1908

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 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 1908

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1290

Identifier 832 (accession number), CHS-832 (call number), CHS-832 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2165 (legacy record id), chs-m1290 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1335 (legacy record id), 1-8-3 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2165

Unique identifier UC117656

Legacy Identifier CHS-832.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 22.2 in × 17.2 in at 300dpi
56.5 cm × 43.7 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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