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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Exterior shot of the Pacific Railway Company's Power Cable House, ca.1890
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Exterior shot of the Pacific Railway Company's Power Cable House, ca.1890

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Photograph of an exterior shot of the Pacific Railway Company's Power Cable House on the southwest corner of Seventh Street and Grand Avenue, ca.1890. Two street cars, each with a trailer car, come from either side of the corner in front of the brick complex of the Power Cable House, from the corner of which an American flag flies. Three men stand to the side of the leftmost trolley with a fourth behind them. One stand in front of the right trolley. Another group of people poses on the corner of the sidewalk, eight out of the twelve with numbers scratched above their heads on the negative. A sign to the extreme left on the complex reads "Chop House". The numbers above the individuals' heads identify the following: "1) Supt. Jas. A. Akin; 2) R.W. Darley, Stenographer; 3) Thos. A. Cole, Inspector; 4) S. McClure, Roadmaster; 5) Wm. M. Garland, Auditor; 6) James T. Chadsey, Cable Splicer; 7) Frank Van Vleck, Engineer; 8) E.L. Lewis, Asst. Superintendent.". A second note on the picture file card reads "Superintendant Jas. J. Sidon" contradicting the listing. 
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Title Exterior shot of the Pacific Railway Company's Power Cable House, ca.1890 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1890 
Subject Akin, James J.  (subject), buildings  (lcsh), buildings  (adlf), Chadsey, James T.  (subject), Cole, Thomas A.  (subject), Darley, R. W.  (subject), Garland, William M.  (subject), Lewis, E. L.  (subject), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Pacific Railway Company  (file heading), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Train stations  (file heading), McClure, S.  (subject), Pacific Railway Company  (subject), Postal service -- Buildings  (lcsh), Power supply  (lcsh), Street-railroads  (lcsh), Transportation -- Street Railroads -- Buildings  (file heading), United States Postal Service  (subject), Van Vleck, Frank  (subject) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place 7th Street & Grand Avenue (roadway), California (states), Downtown Los Angeles (city or populated place), Grand Power Cable House (manmade features), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Pacific Railway Company (manmade features), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1890 
Type images
Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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 Send requests to address or e-mail given 
Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1071 
Identifier 7085 (accession number), CHS-7085 (call number), CHS-7085 (filename), isla id: S-4644 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1953 (legacy record id), chs-m1071 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1107 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12778 (legacy record id), 1-7-12 (microfiche number), USC (project) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 1953 
Unique identifier UC117535 
Legacy Identifier CHS-7085.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 18.5 in × 12.1 in at 300dpi
47.1 cm × 30.8 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 
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