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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Birdseye view of Broadway looking Northeast from Seventh and Hill, 1888
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Birdseye view of Broadway looking Northeast from Seventh and Hill, 1888
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Photograph of a birdseye view of Broadway looking Northeast from Seventh and Hill, 1888. The east side of Broadway is a large lot with white canvas military tents and uniformed military personnel lined up in formation. Churches can be seen in the background as well as what is identified on the photo as "the electric light mast at Main and 6th Street".; "If you need faith in the future growth of Los Angeles, take a long look at this picture. The encampment of this Lodge (probably the Knights Templar) is on the site of the Bullock Building on the corner of Seventh and Hill Streets in 1888. The camera is looking Northeast towards what is now the retail and financial district of the city. A little over forty years has wrought this change, but most of the building activity which has changed this view has occurred since 1907. Broadway was a street of residences or open fields, reading from left to right in the middle distance we note the First Baptist Church on Sixth and Broadway where Silverwoods' now stands; just behind the right corner of the church we can see a bit of the old Spring Street Grammar School on the present site of the Broadway and Spring Arcade buildings; in the distance is the electric light mast which identifies this spot as Sixth and Main, the Pacific Electric Station corner, while along the right margin is the German Lutheran Church, property now occupied by the W. & J. Sloane building. The Wall Street of Los Angeles -- Spring Street between Fifth and Seventh Streets -- hadn't materialized yet, even in the dreams of Los Angeles pioneers." -- from a clipping placed with picture file card.
Asset Metadata
Title
Birdseye view of Broadway looking Northeast from Seventh and Hill, 1888
Subject
camps
(adlf),
Churches
(lcsh),
Electric lighting
(lcsh),
First Baptist Church
(subject),
German Lutheran Church
(subject),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 6th to 7th
(file heading),
Military
(lcsh),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Broadway
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1888
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 18 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
1888
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-m127
Identifier
11675 (
accession number
), CHS-11675 (
call number
), CHS-11675 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-1818 (
legacy record id
), chs-m127 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-131 (
legacy record id
), 1-2-162 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
1818
Unique identifier
UC117120
Legacy Identifier
CHS-11675.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.7 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
47.5 cm × 34.2 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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