Zanja (irrigation ditch) which lies alongside the sidewalk on the west side of Figueroa Street looking south from 23rd Street, Los Angeles, ca.1890

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Photograph of a zanja (irrigation ditch) which lies alongside the sidewalk on the west side of Figueroa Street looking south from 23rd Street, Los Angeles, ca.1890. A sidewalk can be seen at left into the background. It is lined by trees to the left and the zanja to the right. Well-groomed lawns, shrubs, flowers, and trees can be seen to the right. Parts of homes are visible above the treetops in the background.

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Title Zanja (irrigation ditch) which lies alongside the sidewalk on the west side of Figueroa Street looking south from 23rd Street, Los Angeles, ca.1890

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1890

Subject Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), Figueroa Street (file heading), Irrigation (file heading), Irrigation (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Figueroa (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 23rd Street (roadway), California (states), Figueroa Street (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1890

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass plate negative, photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 20 cm., 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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-m191

Identifier 66 (accession number), CHS-66 (call number), CHS-66 (filename), isla id: S-4689 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1882 (legacy record id), chs-m191 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-191 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1882

Unique identifier UC117424

Legacy Identifier CHS-66.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.5 in × 14.2 in at 300dpi
47.0 cm × 36.1 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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