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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of the completed lanes of North Figueroa Street, looking south, showing automobile traffic, ca.1936
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View of the completed lanes of North Figueroa Street, looking south, showing automobile traffic, ca.1936
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Description
Photograph of a view of the completed lanes of North Figueroa Street, looking south, showing automobile traffic, ca.1936. Several automobiles are parked along the right edge of North Figueroa Street, while others drive along its paved lanes. Grassy hills sit to the right side of the road, while a paved sidewalk runs along its left edge. Buildings and trees are visible in the hazy background, with City Hall at the right.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of the completed lanes of North Figueroa Street, looking south, showing automobile traffic, ca.1936
Subject
Civil engineering
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Figueroa
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh),
Streets -- Maintenance and repair
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Birch Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Figueroa Street
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Spruce Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1936
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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)
Date Created
1936
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-m220
Identifier
31049J (
accession number
), CHS-31049J (
call number
), CHS-31049J (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2866 (
legacy record id
), chs-m220 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-220 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2866
Unique identifier
UC117099
Legacy Identifier
CHS-31049J.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.1 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
48.7 cm × 34.3 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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