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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Los Angeles from Fifth Street and Hill Street, showing City Hall and the city gasworks, 1928
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View of Los Angeles from Fifth Street and Hill Street, showing City Hall and the city gasworks, 1928
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Photograph of a birdseye view of Los Angeles from Fifth Street and Hill Street, showing City Hall and the city gasworks, 1928. The intersection of two major roads is visible to the upper right. The Los Angeles City Hall building stands at the center of the image, a tower flanked to either side by small highrise structures extending from a flat, wide one-story base level. What appears to be a gothic church can be seen just in front of it and to the left, its bell tower extending above the buildings around it. A second building also in front, but to the right, features a smaller clock tower. The surrounding area is a grid work of city streets packed to either side by tenement, business and commercial buildings. Towards the top of the photo towards the right, wide, cylindrical wire-frame towers bear the title "L.A. Gas".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Los Angeles from Fifth Street and Hill Street, showing City Hall and the city gasworks, 1928
Subject
capitol buildings
(adlf),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Public buildings -- City halls
(file heading),
Los Angeles City Hall
(subject),
Public buildings
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
buildings: Los Angeles City Hall
(geographic subject),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Spring Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1928
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 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
1928
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-m1849
Identifier
6919 (
accession number
), CHS-6919 (
call number
), CHS-6919 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2707 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1849 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-1901 (
legacy record id
), 1-23- (
microfiche number
), 1-63- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2707
Unique identifier
UC117203
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6919.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.4 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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