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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Street-level view of Washington Boulevard looking west from Main Street, Los Angeles, 1935
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Street-level view of Washington Boulevard looking west from Main Street, Los Angeles, 1935

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Photograph of a street-level view of Washington Boulevard looking west from Main Street, Los Angeles, 1935. The intersection of the two wide paved roads can be seen in the foreground at right. An assortment of early automobiles, including several trucks, can be seen on the roads. In the background at center, the tall Mode O'Day building towers over its surroundings. A network of utility wires is visible overhead. A Goodyear tire store can be seen in the foreground at right. 
Asset Metadata
Title Street-level view of Washington Boulevard looking west from Main Street, Los Angeles, 1935 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1935 
Subject buildings  (adlf), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Washington #1  (file heading), Mode O' Day Building  (subject), Retail trade  (lcsh), Streets  (lcsh) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Main Street (roadway), USA (countries), Washington Street (roadway) 
Temporal Subject 1935 
Type images
Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 7 x 12 cm. (aacr2), 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 Send requests to address or e-mail given 
Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m384 
Identifier 42193 (accession number), CHS-42193 (call number), CHS-42193 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3975 (legacy record id), chs-m384 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-382 (legacy record id), USC (project) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 3975 
Unique identifier UC117635 
Legacy Identifier CHS-42193.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 27.3 in × 17.4 in at 300dpi
69.3 cm × 44.2 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 
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