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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Farmers and Merchants National Bank, ca.1908
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Farmers and Merchants National Bank, ca.1908
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Description
Photograph of the exterior of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank (later Security Pacific National bank), on the southwest corner of Main Street and Fourth Street, ca.1908. The rectangular three-story stone bank is built in a Greek-revival style. The adjacent streets and sidewalks are deserted. Electric streetcar lines run over the intersection. A traffic signal hangs from wires above. Legible signs include: "Farmers and Merchants National Bank, capital $1,500,000, surplus $1,000,000, safe deposit and storage vaults", "Theater Morosco's Burbank, [...] Monte Cristo, [...] Matinees every Saturday and Sunday", "The Humphrey, Currin & Osgood props.", "Morosco's Burbank, [...] Lost in the desert [...], Sunday matinee, Apr. 16"....
Asset Metadata
Title
Farmers and Merchants National Bank, ca.1908
Subject
Banks
(subject),
Banks and banking
(lcsh),
buildings
(adlf),
Farmers and Merchants National Bank
(subject),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Banks
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Main Street & Fourth Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1908
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 20 x 25 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
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-m1212
Identifier
2462 (
accession number
), CHS-2462 (
call number
), CHS-2462 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2090 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1212 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-1258 (
legacy record id
), 1-6-76 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2090
Unique identifier
UC117855
Legacy Identifier
CHS-2462.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.2 in × 15.2 in at 300dpi
48.8 cm × 38.8 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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