California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the O. G. Wilhelm Apartments on Grand Avenue in Los Angeles, 1905

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Exterior view of the O. G. Wilhelm Apartments on Grand Avenue in Los Angeles, 1905

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Photograph of an exterior view of the O. G. Wilhelm Apartments on Grand Avenue in Los Angeles, 1905. The five-story brick building is at center. Five archways can be seen in the middle of the building, including a large one with a double doorway on the bottom floor. Several rectangular windows can be seen on each story. Near the top of the building, decorative carvings flank the embossed name of the building. A man is standing on the curb in front of the building, and a small cart can be seen on the unpaved street in the foreground. Circa 1921, the , the Wilhelm Apartments became the Woman's Hotel. it was demolished circa 1936.

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Title Exterior view of the O. G. Wilhelm Apartments on Grand Avenue in Los Angeles, 1905

Subject Apartment houses (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Domestic -- Apartment buildings (file heading), residential sites (adlf), Wilhelm, O. G. (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 639 South Grand Avenue (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1905

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 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 1905

Creator C.C. Pierce & Co. (photographer)

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-m1753

Identifier 32414 (accession number), CHS-32414 (call number), CHS-32414 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2610 (legacy record id), chs-m1753 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1805 (legacy record id), USC (project), 2488 (unidentified no.), 42 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2610

Unique identifier UC116215

Legacy Identifier CHS-32414.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.1 in × 20.0 in at 300dpi
41.0 cm × 50.8 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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