North Broadway entrance to Elysian Park, ca.1900

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Photograph of North Broadway entrance to Elysian Park, ca.1900. Panoramic view of Elysian Park hillside with an electric car approaching. A palm tree is planted in the elbow of a path as it curves up into the park. A man is standing at the railing of a landing of steps. Two other me are further into the park itself. Nearby is a decorative lamp post topped with a bird. Visible in the background are the Buena Vista Street bridge and several horse-drawn vehicles. In the distant background are dwellings and hills. Legible signs include: "Chew Fefman's pepsin gum"[?], "Box"..., ..."ee hi[...]e factory" .

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Title North Broadway entrance to Elysian Park, ca.1900

Subject Electric railroads (lcsh), Elysian Park (subject), Los Angeles -- Parks -- Elysian Park (file heading), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- North of Temple (file heading), Parks (lcsh), roadways (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Buena Vista Street (roadway), California (states), Elysian Park (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), North Broadway (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 2 photographs: photoprint, glass photonegative, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm., 17 x 22 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)

Date Created 1900

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (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-m24

Identifier 163 (accession number), CHS-163 (call number), CHS-163 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1716 (legacy record id), chs-m24 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-27 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3675 (legacy record id), 1-2-174 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1716

Unique identifier UC117416

Legacy Identifier CHS-163.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.5 in × 14.2 in at 300dpi
47.1 cm × 36.3 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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