California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the Broadway Hotel in the Wilson Block, 1910

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Exterior view of the Broadway Hotel in the Wilson Block, 1910

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Photograph of the exterior view of the Broadway Hotel in the Wilson Block, 1910. Adjacent stores include millinery, piano and a window advertisement for "Prof. C. Irvin Althouse, Scientific Palmist". The four-story building has projected windows similar to cant windows except with a box shape. The façade, from the second floor and up, is symmetric. The first floor consists of little shops, each with unique window displays and decorations. A man is working with his bucket near a lamppost (lower right). Several bicycles are parked along the dirt road.; Legible signs include: "[...]el Meyer", "Hotel Catalina", "rockery and glassv[...]", "[...] and [...]aurant [...] lies", "439, Pacific Music Co.", "Steck Pianos", "Wheeler & Wilson, ladies and children's wear, sewing machines", "Le Sage Shoes", "sample shoe sale", "Le Sage Bro", "E.P. Charlton & Co., 5-10 and 15 Cent Store", "shoe sale", "Broadway", "Broadway Hotel Café", "Singer Sewing Machine Co.", "millinery", "Great American Importing Tea Co., crockery and chinaware, teas, coffee and spice, powder, chocolate, baking", "The Narrangans[...], rooms", "C.I.A[lthouse] Palmist", "Glo[...], 421, Paris Kid [...]", "MacGinnis, skirts, suits, waists, dusters", "The Narra...", "Prof. C. Irvin Althouse Scientific Palmist", "894 E. Wilson".

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Title Exterior view of the Broadway Hotel in the Wilson Block, 1910

Subject Althouse, C. Irvin (subject), Broadway Hotel (subject), buildings (adlf), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Hotels #2 (file heading), Palmistry (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 429 South Broadway (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1910

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1910

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1256

Identifier 5143 (accession number), CHS-5143 (call number), CHS-5143 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2133 (legacy record id), chs-m1256 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1301 (legacy record id), 1-2-52 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2133

Unique identifier UC117875

Legacy Identifier CHS-5143.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 14.7 in at 300dpi
47.8 cm × 37.5 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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