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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Birdseye view of Wilshire Boulevard looking north-west, ca.1937
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Birdseye view of Wilshire Boulevard looking north-west, ca.1937
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Description
Photograph of a birdseye view of Wilshire Boulevard looking north-west, ca.1937. Wilshire Boulevard is at center and runs from the foreground at left into the background at right. Figueroa Street intersects at it center. There is a lot of traffic on the left side of the boulevard, while very few cars can be seen on the right. Several large buildings line Wilshire: Dinsmore Apartments can be seen in the background at center and right, while in the middle at left is Paul G. Hoffman Studebaker dealership. La Salle University is on the corner of Wilshire and Figueroa.; Legible signs include, from left to right: "Alka Seltzer", "Studebaker Service", "The Dinsmore Apartments", "Associated", "Inside Parking 15¢", "Garage", and "10".; Originally, the image was captured as "Birdseye view looking south on Figueroa Street between Twelfth Street and Pico Boulevard, ca.1937".
Asset Metadata
Title
Birdseye view of Wilshire Boulevard looking north-west, ca.1937
Subject
Apartment houses
(lcsh),
Dinsmore Apartments
(subject),
LaSalle University
(subject),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Figueroa
(file heading),
Streets
(lcsh),
Streets
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Figueroa Street
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries),
Wilshire Boulevard
(roadway)
Temporal Subject
1937
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(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
1937
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-m234
Identifier
33260 (
accession number
), CHS-33260 (
call number
), CHS-33260 (
filename
), isla id: S-4700 (
identifying number
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2880 (
legacy record id
), chs-m234 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-234 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2880
Unique identifier
UC117134
Legacy Identifier
CHS-33260.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
13.3 in × 18.6 in at 300dpi
33.9 cm × 47.2 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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