California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Adobe commercial building on North Broadway, Sonora Town, 1900

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Adobe commercial building on North Broadway, Sonora Town, 1900

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Photograph of an adobe commercial building on North Broadway, Sonora Town, 1900. Seven people are posed, waiting alongside the road in front of the dilapidated adobe. One man of the seven stands way off to the left, on his own. Another hides behind a utility pole to the right. The adobe stands behind them, much of its spackle having crumbled away, its bricks showing. The roof and the upper level of the long building are made of wood planks, which have begun to sag inward at the left. The roof is shingled. A wooden overhang shades some of the multiple doors on the building's front. The windows are shuttered and missing several slats. The remains of a second adobe are visible to the far left. Streetcar tracks are visible in the unpaved road. A message painted on the left wall reads "Help Employ M[e]".

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Title Adobe commercial building on North Broadway, Sonora Town, 1900

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1900

Subject Adobe houses (lcsh), commercial sites (adlf), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- North of Temple (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), North Broadway (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (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-m26

Identifier 7401 (accession number), CHS-7401 (call number), CHS-7401 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1717 (legacy record id), chs-m26 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-29 (legacy record id), 1-15-119 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1717

Unique identifier UC117419

Legacy Identifier CHS-7401.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.5 in × 14.2 in at 300dpi
47.0 cm × 36.2 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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