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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Melrose Hotel on Grand Avenue between First Street and Second Street on Bunker Hill, ca.1945
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Melrose Hotel on Grand Avenue between First Street and Second Street on Bunker Hill, ca.1945
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Description
Photograph of an exterior view of the Melrose Hotel on Grand Avenue between First Street and Second Street on Bunker Hill, ca.1945. The hotel is a large rectangular building with four stories. Its flat roof is slightly higher on the corners than in the middle, and a sign bearing the name of the hotel projects upward from the middle of the façade. The second and third stories have large covered balconies, and the bottom floor is obstructed from view by thick ivy and other plants. On the street in front of the hotel are three large automobiles, two of which are parked.
Asset Metadata
Title
Melrose Hotel on Grand Avenue between First Street and Second Street on Bunker Hill, ca.1945
Subject
buildings
(adlf),
Hotels, taverns, etc.
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Hotels #3
(file heading),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Grand Avenue
(file heading),
Melrose Hotel
(subject),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
1st Street
(roadway),
2nd Street
(roadway),
Bunker Hill
(city or populated place),
California
(states),
Grand Avenue
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1945
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(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
1945
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-m252
Identifier
13062 (
accession number
), CHS-13062 (
call number
), CHS-13062 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2897 (
legacy record id
), chs-m252 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-251 (
legacy record id
), 1-13- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2897
Unique identifier
UC117194
Legacy Identifier
CHS-13062.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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