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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Two cannons half buried upright in the street at the intersection of Main Street and Commercial Street, Los Angeles
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Two cannons half buried upright in the street at the intersection of Main Street and Commercial Street, Los Angeles
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Description
Photograph of two Mexican cannons captured by Americans half buried upright in the street on the southeast corner of Main Street and Commercial Street (Court Street), Los Angeles. An office of Farmers and Merchants Bank is visible behind. Two figures (pedestrians?) on the sidewalk have been scratched out of the image.
Asset Metadata
Title
Two cannons half buried upright in the street at the intersection of Main Street and Commercial Street, Los Angeles
Subject
Banks and banking
(lcsh),
Cannons
(subject),
Farmers and Merchants Bank
(subject),
Main Street -- L.A. Historical
(subject),
Military weapons
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Main Street & Commercial Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1890/1898
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1890/1898
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-m6366
Identifier
2752 (
accession number
), CHS-2752 (
call number
), CHS-2752 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-6458 (
legacy record id
), chs-m6366 (
legacy record id
), 1-6-5 (
microfiche number
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
6458
Unique identifier
UC116805
Legacy Identifier
CHS-2752.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.9 in × 14.3 in at 300dpi
48.0 cm × 36.3 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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