California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

West Olympic Boulevard looking west from South Flower Street before its realignment at South Figueroa, [s.d.]

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West Olympic Boulevard looking west from South Flower Street before its realignment at South Figueroa, [s.d.]

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Photograph of West Olympic Boulevard looking west from South Flower Street before its realignment at South Figueroa, [s.d.]. In the extreme foreground, a wide street can be seen extending from left to right. A manhole cover can be seen at right. At center, another road can be seen intersecting the street in the foreground. In the background at left, the Baker Apartment Hotel can be seen at 845 W Olympic Boulevard along with a line of cars parked along a sidewalk. Two man wearing suits and hats stand on the sidewalk near a utility pole. Further to the left, the Petroleum Building is visible. At right, in the middle, the Jos Kreutzer Auto Repair can be seen (951 S Flower Street) along with the Belmont Apartments at 948 South Figueroa Street. To the far right, additional buildings are visible with a line of cars nearby. The Security-First National Bank is to the right.

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Title West Olympic Boulevard looking west from South Flower Street before its realignment at South Figueroa, [s.d.]

Subject Banks and banking (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Figueroa (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), West Olympic Boulevard (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), West Olympic Boulevard (roadway)

Temporal Subject 1939

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), 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 1939

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-m233

Identifier 42107 (accession number), CHS-42107 (call number), CHS-42107 (filename), isla id: S-4706 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2879 (legacy record id), chs-m233 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-233 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2879

Unique identifier UC117186

Legacy Identifier CHS-42107.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.1 in × 12.7 in at 300dpi
46.1 cm × 32.5 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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