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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Exterior view of the Los Angeles Natural History Museum (formerly Los Angeles County Historical Art Museum?), ca.1920
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Exterior view of the Los Angeles Natural History Museum (formerly Los Angeles County Historical Art Museum?), ca.1920
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Photograph of an exterior view of the Los Angeles Natural History Museum (formerly Los Angeles County Historical Art Museum?), ca.1920. The building is approximately three-stories tall. The facade features a multicurved parapet flanked by two dome turrets. The two long wings of the building meets at the center where above the center is a large dome roof. The spacious courtyard in front of the building is well manicured.; "Exposition Park, originally named Agricultural Park, was developed in 1876 as a showground for agricultural and horticultural fairs. The property became state land in 1880, the same year USC was founded, but during the 1890s, it fell into private hands, victim of a corrupt state legislature in league with local opportunists. Its character swiftly deteriorated, and it became a favorite haunt of the city's riffraff. William M. Bowen, an attorney and adjunct professor of law at USC, was appalled at the gambling and debauchery he witnessed beyond the park's gate, and late in the decade he spearheaded a successful campaign to recover the tract on behalf of the people of California. With the support of fellow civic leaders such as USC President George Finley Bovard, Bowen garnered the commitments of city, state and county to develop the land as a public educational, cultural and recreational center. On November 6, 1913, the day after William Mulholland opened the Owens River aqueduct, Exposition Park was formally dedicated, home to a state Exposition Building and the county Museum of History, Science and Art, and slated to gain a National Guard Armory." -- unknown author.; "For most of this century, California has had a museum designed to showcase the ways in which science and technology affect the lives of its residents. The first State Exposition Building opened in 1909, housing simple displays of natural resources and industrial products from across the state. After World War II, as technology-based businesses began to grow, the building was remodeled to show visitors the role of science and technology in everyday life. To better describe this new objective, it was renamed the California Museum of Science and Industry in 1951." -- unknown author.
Asset Metadata
Title
Exterior view of the Los Angeles Natural History Museum (formerly Los Angeles County Historical Art Museum?), ca.1920
Subject
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Public Buildings -- Museums
(file heading),
Los Angeles -- Parks -- Exposition Park (formerly Agricultural Park)
(file heading),
Los Angeles County Historical and Art Museum
(subject),
museum buildings
(adlf),
Museums
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Exposition Boulevard & Figueroa Street
(roadway),
Exposition Park
(city or populated place),
Historical and Art Museum
(manmade features),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Geocoordinate
34.01547,-118.28576 (
point
), 34.01713,-118.29067 (
point
), 34.01725,-118.28181 (
point
), 34.01826,-118.28608 (
point
)
Temporal Subject
1920
Type
images
Format
1 microfilm frame : negative, b&w ; 35 mm.
(aacr2),
microfilms
(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
1920
Creator
Hudson, Frank D.
(architect),
Munsell, William
(architect),
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
(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
Send requests to address or e-mail given
Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1907
Identifier
5697 (
accession number
), CHS-5697 (
call number
), CHS-5697 (
filename
), isla id: S-4615 (
identifying number
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2759 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1907 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-1959 (
legacy record id
), 1-63- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2759
Unique identifier
UC117191
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5697.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.6 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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