California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the Federal Building and Post Office, Los Angeles, ca.1939

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Exterior view of the Federal Building and Post Office, Los Angeles, ca.1939

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Photograph of the exterior view of the Federal Building and Post Office, Los Angeles, ca.1939. The wide building features recessed windows that run vertically up the building. Two palms and bushes decorate the well manicured yard in front of the building.

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Title Exterior view of the Federal Building and Post Office, Los Angeles, ca.1939

Subject buildings (adlf), Federal Building (subject), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Public Buildings -- Federal buildings (file heading), Post Office (subject), Public buildings (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1939

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 1939

Creator Puck, Charles (photographer)

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-m1881

Identifier 8328 (accession number), CHS-8328 (call number), CHS-8328 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2733 (legacy record id), chs-m1881 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1933 (legacy record id), 1-63- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2733

Unique identifier UC117187

Legacy Identifier CHS-8328.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

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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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