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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Broadway looking north from 5th Street, ca.1908
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View of Broadway looking north from 5th Street, ca.1908
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Description
Photograph of a view of Broadway looking north from 5th Street, ca.1908. A majority of the buildings are at least three stories tall. Several horse-drawn carriage and early-model cars are traveling down the street (at right). Street lamps line the sidewalks on both sides of the street.; Legible signs include: "[...]at Fifth and Broadway", "the Normandie", "L.A. Optical Co., dentists, scientific opticians", "Hanan shoes", "candies", "mission fountain, we make our own ice cream", "Broadway Drapery & Furniture Co., matting, furniture, rugs", "Weaver Jackson Hair Co.", "Pacific Music Co.", "Wilson", "[...]a dental", "frui[ts]", "457", "Cummings".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Broadway looking north from 5th Street, ca.1908
Subject
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 4th to 5th
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf),
Stores, Retail
(lcsh),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Broadway
(roadway),
California
(states),
Fifth Street
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1908
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
1908
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-m105
Identifier
6028 (
accession number
), CHS-6028 (
call number
), CHS-6028 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-1799 (
legacy record id
), chs-m105 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-108 (
legacy record id
), 1-2-74 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
), 678 (
unidentified no.
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
1799
Unique identifier
UC117432
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6028.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.9 in × 14.2 in at 300dpi
45.5 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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