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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Broadway looking north from Third Street, showing City Hall, Los Angeles, ca.1926
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View of Broadway looking north from Third Street, showing City Hall, Los Angeles, ca.1926
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Description
Photograph of a view of Broadway looking north from Third Street, showing City Hall, Los Angeles, ca.1926. Automobiles are parked along both sides of the street while crowds of pedestrians walk the sidewalks. City hall stands in the right foreground corner with tall, brick, arch-topped windows. Cable-cars move up and down along the center of the street. Highrise buildings dominate the skyline. Legible signs include: "Pic & Whistle", "Victor Clothing / Pay only $2.50", "New King Hotel", "Half Price Store", "Rooms", "Dentists", "Drugs" and "Scott".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Broadway looking north from Third Street, showing City Hall, Los Angeles, ca.1926
Subject
Automobiles
(lcsh),
buildings
(lcsh),
Electric railroads
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 2nd to 3rd
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Broadway & 3rd Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1921/1931
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegatives, 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
1921/1931
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-m58
Identifier
6770 (
accession number
), CHS-6770 (
call number
), CHS-6770 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-1752 (
legacy record id
), chs-m58 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-63 (
legacy record id
), 1-2-102 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
1752
Unique identifier
UC117471
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6770.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.3 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
44.0 cm × 34.8 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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