California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Men paving Sunset Boulevard east of Serrano Avenue, 1930

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Men paving Sunset Boulevard east of Serrano Avenue, 1930

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Photograph of men paving Sunset Boulevard east of Serrano Avenue, 1930. At right, men work in a section of excavated road where pilons are sticking out of the ground. At left, a crane lifst a section of concrete tubing. The surface of the road pictured is two-inch Warrenite-Bitulithic on a six-inch Portland Cement concrete base. Compares to CHS-44000 and CHS-44001.

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Title Men paving Sunset Boulevard east of Serrano Avenue, 1930

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1930-09-09

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Cranes, derricks, etc. (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Sunset Boulevard (file heading), roaddways (adlf), Streets -- Maintenance and repair (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Sunset Boulevard & Serrano Avenue (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930-09-09

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), 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)

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-m325

Identifier 43999 (accession number), CHS-43999 (call number), CHS-43999 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3917 (legacy record id), chs-m325 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-323 (legacy record id), USC (project), 3046 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3917

Unique identifier UC117848

Legacy Identifier CHS-43999.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 21.9 in × 13.9 in at 300dpi
55.6 cm × 35.3 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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