Close
About
FAQ
Home
Collections
Login
USC Login
Register
0
Selected
Invert selection
Deselect all
Deselect all
Click here to refresh results
Click here to refresh results
USC
/
Digital Library
/
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
/
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
/
Broadway looking south from Second Street, Los Angeles, ca.1895-1905
(USC DC Image)
Broadway looking south from Second Street, Los Angeles, ca.1895-1905
Loading details...
You do not have the permission to view Original image
Download
Share
Copy Asset Link
Request this asset
Description
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".
Asset Metadata
Title
Broadway looking south from Second Street, Los Angeles, ca.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)
Date Created
1895/1905
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-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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
Conceptually similar
Broadway looking south from Second Street showing a cable car, Los Angeles, ca.1893-1895
View of Broadway between Second Street and Third Street, showing the old Los Angeles City Hall, ca.1905
View of Broadway, looking south from Seventh Street, ca.1908
Broadway looking north from Fourth Street, ca.1904-1905
Spring Street looking north from Second Street, ca.1895
Panoramic view looking southeast from First Street and Hill Street toward Broadway, ca.1882-1895
Broadway and Third Street, looking east on Third Street from Olive Street, Los Angeles, 1894
Panoramic view of Los Angeles from Second Street and Hill Street, ca.1890-1895
Spring Street looking north near Fourth Street, ca.1910
Second Street looking east from Broadway, after 1881
View of Broadway looking south from Ninth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1928
View of Spring Street looking north from the Nadeau Hotel on First Street, ca.1890
View of Broadway looking south from Second Street, Los Angeles, ca.1927
View of Broadway looking north from Seventh Street, Los Angeles, ca.1907
Looking west on Second Street in Pomona, ca.1895-1896
Broadway looking north from Third Street, Los Angeles, ca.1895-1910
View of Broadway showing a Los Angeles Investment Company construction project, ca.1926
Panoramic view of Los Angeles from First Street and Hill Street looking southeast, ca.1893
Exterior view Hotel Green with annex and park from the south, ca.1905
The Bullock's Building under construction on Broadway and Seventh Street, Los Angeles, ca.1905
Similar tones
View images with similar tones