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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 Seventh Street, ca.1917
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View of Broadway, looking north from Seventh Street, ca.1917
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Photograph of a view of Broadway, looking north from Seventh Street, ca.1917. The are many tall commercial buildings on the visible blocks. Notable buildings include the Bullocks department store building (left), the Bank of Italy (right), the California Furniture Co. (center) and the Walter P. Story/Mullen & Bluett Clothing Co. building (center left). Early-model cars are parked along the curb or moving down the street. Streetcars carrying passengers are moving on its rails down the street. Pedestrians are can be seen traveling on the sidewalks or crossing the streets.; Legible signs include: "Bank of Italy, resources over $40,000,000", "S. Broadway", "W. Seventh St.", "644, 646, California Furniture Co., Globe-Werniche, sectional bookcases, high in quality, low in price", "costumes, Goldstein Co. L.A[...], theatrical, film, masquerade, draperies", "Empire Sample Suit Co.", "Dr. C.P. Daiber, dentist", "Boos Bros Cafeteria, open until midnight", "John L. Kleinpeter, tailor, designer, draperies", "Mendel cigars", "Mozart cigars", and "auto stage". tickets", "billiards", "Orpheum", "Vaudeville", "theatre", "Walter P. Story building", "Mullen & Bluett Clothing Co.", "owl", "Pantages Theatre office building, unequalled vaudeville, presenting always the best, American & European, artists of reputed[...], popular [...] matinee[...]", "Hotel Darby", "Bullocks", on a street car "Western Ave., 821, 56, via 7th St., via Westlake Park".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Broadway, looking north from Seventh Street, ca.1917
Subject
Bullocks
(subject),
H. Jevne Company
(subject),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 6th to 7th
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf),
Stores, Retail
(lcsh),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
7th Street
(roadway),
Broadway
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1917
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
photographic prints
(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
1917
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-m125
Identifier
5461 (
accession number
), CHS-5461 (
call number
), CHS-5461 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-1816 (
legacy record id
), chs-m125 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-129 (
legacy record id
), 1-2-58 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
1816
Unique identifier
UC117406
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5461.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
14.7 in × 18.5 in at 300dpi
37.4 cm × 46.9 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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