California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Automobile driving down Sunset Boulevard during the road's construction, ca.1925

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Automobile driving down Sunset Boulevard during the road's construction, ca.1925

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Photograph of an automobile driving down Sunset Boulevard during the road's construction, ca.1925. The back of an automobile can be seen making its way down the rough-surface of the still unpaved road, which curves off towards a house in the right distance. Three palm trees can be seen standing together at left.

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Title Automobile driving down Sunset Boulevard during the road's construction, ca.1925

Subject Los Angeles County -- Beverly Hills -- Streets (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Beverly Boulevard (roadway), Beverly Hills (city or populated place), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Sunset Boulevard (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1920/1930

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 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 1920/1930

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-m13

Identifier 7542 (accession number), CHS-7542 (call number), CHS-7542 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1703 (legacy record id), chs-m13 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-16 (legacy record id), 1-25-11 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1703

Unique identifier UC117480

Legacy Identifier CHS-7542.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 35.2 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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