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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Broadway looking south from Second Street, Los Angeles, ca.1895-1905
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Broadway looking south from Second Street, Los Angeles, ca.1895-1905

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Photograph of Broadway looking south from Second Street, Los Angeles, ca.1895-1905. Three- and four-story buildings line both sides of the road, which runs from the foreground to the background at center. City Hall is visible, as are horse-drawn carriages and numerous pedestrians on the sidewalk. Street car rails are in the middle of the road. Utility wires are visible overhead.; Legible signs include: "Frank S[...], general broker", "Real estate", addresses "204", "214", ..."5¢ cigar", "Hammam Turkish baths", "tub, shampoo, plunge bath, 25¢", "Shoe repair", "Crocker" building, "Burbank"..., "214, The Examiner Office", ..."Ville [...] Paris"..., "Wall paper", "21[...] City of London, 21"..., ..."Barth [...]tt & Smith", "Y.M.C."..., "Agency American Central Insurance Co.", "G.A.[...] Brandis Rental Agency", "St. Paul Fam. Ins. Co., G.A.[...] Brandis Res. Agt.", "Fire, insurance", "O.C. Sens", "G.F. McLellan, notary public", ..."C. Sens, 205 [...]oring", "California Bank Building", ..."Law offices", ..."real estate and mines". 
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Title Broadway looking south from Second Street, Los Angeles, ca.1895-1905 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1895/1905 
Subject Carriages and carts  (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 2nd to 3rd  (file heading), roadways  (adlf), Streets  (lcsh) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place Broadway & 2nd Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1895/1905 
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) 
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-m63 
Identifier 1363 (accession number), CHS-1363 (call number), CHS-1363 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1757 (legacy record id), chs-m63 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-68 (legacy record id), 1-2-13 (microfiche number), USC (project) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 1757 
Unique identifier UC117208 
Legacy Identifier CHS-1363.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 17.2 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
43.8 cm × 33.8 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 
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