California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Panoramic view of North Figueroa Street as viewed from Spring Street, showing the results of street improvements, February 1936

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Panoramic view of North Figueroa Street as viewed from Spring Street, showing the results of street improvements, February 1936

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Photograph of a panoramic view of North Figueroa Street as viewed from Spring Street, showing the results of street improvements, February 1936. The paved lanes of North Figueroa Street curve through the middle of the image, running from the foreground toward the distant skyline of downtown. A few automobiles are visible on Figueroa, while tree-lined hills sit to each side of the street. The horizon is smoggy or foggy; the tower of City Hall sits at the center of the background.

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Title Panoramic view of North Figueroa Street as viewed from Spring Street, showing the results of street improvements, February 1936

Subject Civil engineering (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Figueroa (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets -- Maintenance and repair (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Birch Street (roadway), California (states), City Hall (manmade features), Civic Center (city or populated place), Dodger Stadium (manmade features), Elysian Park (city or populated place), Figueroa Street (roadway), Hall Of Justice (manmade features), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), North Figueroa Street & Spruce Street (roadway), Pasadena Freeway (US-110) (roadway), Spruce Street (roadway), Stadium Way (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1936-02-01/1937-06-07

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1936-02-01/1937-06-07

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-m210

Identifier 31049 (accession number), CHS-31049 (call number), CHS-31049 (filename), isla id: S-4683 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2857 (legacy record id), chs-m210 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-210 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-215 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2857

Unique identifier UC117117

Legacy Identifier CHS-31049.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.9 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
48.0 cm × 34.0 cm at 300dpi

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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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