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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Los Angeles and San Pedro Alameda Street Station, the first railroad into Los Angeles, ca.1875
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Los Angeles and San Pedro Alameda Street Station, the first railroad into Los Angeles, ca.1875
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Description
Photograph the Los Angeles and San Pedro Alameda Street Station, the first railroad into Los Angeles, ca.1875. A locomotive hauling its tender, four empty cars, a covered car and a caboose is stopped in front of the railroad station. A man is standing on the walkway at the rear of the train's caboose. Another man stands on the ground at the rear of the train. People are standing around at the side of the station to wait for their train. To the right of the train station is a small grocery store. Legible signs include: "L.A. & S.P.R.R.", "grocery & ba[...]". Additional information: “During February 1869, several attempts were made to buy a lot at the corner of Aliso and Alameda streets for use as a depot site. This… lot was owned by a Mrs. Madigan, who demanded $14,000 in gold for her property… Finally, the project was dropped, and the “present” [sic] lot was purchased from John G. Downey and James F. Burnes… The two lots… were located on the southwest corner of Alameda and Commercial Streets" -- Franklyn Hoyt, "Los Angeles & San Pedro: First Railroad South of the Tehachapis", p. 331 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/25156449).
Asset Metadata
Title
Los Angeles and San Pedro Alameda Street Station, the first railroad into Los Angeles, ca.1875
Subject
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Train stations
(file heading),
Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad
(subject),
railroad features
(adlf),
Railroads -- Stations
(lcsh),
Train Station
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Alameda Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Commercial Street
(roadway),
Downtown Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad
(manmade features),
Union Station
(manmade features),
USA
(countries)
Geocoordinate
34.05397,-118.23159 (
point
), 34.05475,-118.23682 (
point
), 34.05659,-118.231 (
point
), 34.05809,-118.23614 (
point
)
Temporal Subject
1875
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
1875
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-m1530
Identifier
6107 (
accession number
), CHS-6107 (
call number
), CHS-6107 (
filename
), isla id: S-4645 (
identifying number
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2392 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1530 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-1578 (
legacy record id
), 1-119-20 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2392
Unique identifier
UC116564
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6107.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 33.6 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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