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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Broadway and Fourth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1908-1910
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Broadway and Fourth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1908-1910
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Description
Photograph of Broadway near Fourth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1908-1910. The street is crowded with horse-drawn wagons and the sidewalks are filled with pedestrians at the 3-story Broadway Department store. A streetcar ("Heliotrope Drive, Bimini Baths, Bimini Hot Springs") moves down the street from right. Legible signs include: "Draperies", "Curtains", ..."everlastingly the lowest", "Shampooing", "The Broadway Department Store", "Muslin underwear", "Household supplies", "Don't worry", "Watch us grow", "Jackets", "Picture framing", "Men's suits", "Wholesale and retail, Broadway at Fourth", "Toys", "Trunks and valises", "Crockery", "Kodak developing", "Millinery", "Restaurant", "Montgomery Bros. Jewelers", "Pioneer Investment Trust Co.", ..."real estate", "R.D. Robinson Co., investment, securities", "E.B. Van H[...], real estate", "Dentist", "Blake, Moffit & Towne, paper dealer", "Groceries".
Asset Metadata
Title
Broadway and Fourth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1908-1910
Subject
Carriages and carts
(lcsh),
commercial sites
(adlf),
Department stores
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 4th to 5th
(file heading),
Streets
(lcsh),
Wagons
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Broadway & 4th Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1908/1910
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm.; 1 photograph : glass photonegative, photonegative, b&w ; 16 x 22 cm., 10 x 13 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1908/1910
Creator
Bailey
(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.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m88
Identifier
2616 (
accession number
), CHS-2616 (
call number
), CHS-2616 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-1782 (
legacy record id
), chs-m88 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-93 (
legacy record id
), 1-2-32 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
1782
Unique identifier
UC117410
Legacy Identifier
CHS-2616.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.6 in × 14.3 in at 300dpi
47.2 cm × 36.4 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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