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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Exterior view of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building, Olive Street and Sixth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1909
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Exterior view of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building, Olive Street and Sixth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1909
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Description
Photograph of the exterior view of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building, on the corner of Olive Street and Sixth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1909. The five-story Romanesque-style building features ornamental moldings, a large cornice encircling the building's top floor, column buttresses, and pedimented doors and windows. To the right of the insurance building is a building with a spired tower (church or cathedral?). A streetcar, displaying a sign that reads "Washington St.", is about to cross the intersection. People are seen walking down the street or crossing the street. Utility wires zigzag across the streets.
Asset Metadata
Title
Exterior view of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building, Olive Street and Sixth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1909
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Date Created
1909
Subject
buildings
(lcsh),
buildings
(adlf),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- General -- Pacific Life Insurance
(file heading),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- General #2
(file heading),
Pacific Life Insurance Building
(subject),
Street-railroads
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Olive Street & 6th Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1909
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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)
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-m1061
Identifier
5546 (
accession number
), CHS-5546 (
call number
), CHS-5546 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-1943 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1061 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-1097 (
legacy record id
), 1-8-12 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
1943
Unique identifier
UC117489
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5546.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.9 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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