California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of the circular driveway in front of the home of Lucy[?] Longstreet, Palm Avenue, Adams district, Los Angeles, ca.1890

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View of the circular driveway in front of the home of Lucy[?] Longstreet, Palm Avenue, Adams district, Los Angeles, ca.1890

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Photograph (streetscape, horizontal photography) of a view of the circular driveway in front of the home of Lucy[?] Longstreet, Palm Avenue, Adams district, Los Angeles, ca.1890. The driveway curves to the left. Trees and bushes cover the lawn surrounding the driveway. The house (at left) is about two-stories tall and features cornices and arched windows. "At which time it was in use as an osteopathic hospital" -- unknown author. The residence has been mistakenly[?] associated with Confederate General James Longstreet probably based on a letter to the Herald Express (1940 February 5): "About 1875, Confederate General Longstreet acquired the 40 acres on the northeast corner of Figueroa and West Adams streets. He did what was possibly up to that time the most extensive grading job done in Los Angeles. He made a pleasing slope up to where the house was to be built, a slope such as we used to read about in southern love stories. He built a mansion of Southern grandeur and elegance and made the entrance from West Adams, between the palms which he planted, a southern romance. He planted the whole place with orange trees and it became the showplace of Southern California...".

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Title View of the circular driveway in front of the home of Lucy[?] Longstreet, Palm Avenue, Adams district, Los Angeles, ca.1890

Subject Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), Century Plant (subject), Garden (subject), Longstreet, Lucy[?] (subject), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Domestic -- Adams Boulevard (file heading), Norfolk Island Pine (subject), residential sites (adlf), Trees (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Palm Avenue & Adams Boulevard (roadway), Palm Drive & Adams Street (roadway), USA (countries), West Adams (city or populated place)

Temporal Subject 1890

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, 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 1890

Creator C.C. Pierce & Co. (photographer)

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1129

Identifier 6070 (accession number), CHS-6070 (call number), CHS-6070 (filename), isla id: S-4366 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2009 (legacy record id), chs-m1129 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1171 (legacy record id), 1-1-37 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2009

Unique identifier UC117524

Legacy Identifier CHS-6070.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.0 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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