Street view of Dr. Tolhurst's large apartment house located at 726-730 South Figueroa Street near Seventh Street, Los Angeles, between 1903-1907

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Title Street view of Dr. Tolhurst's large apartment house located at 726-730 South Figueroa Street near Seventh Street, Los Angeles, between 1903-1907

Description Photograph of the front street view of Dr. Tolhurst's large apartment house located at 726-730 South Figueroa Street near Seventh Street, Los Angeles, between 1903 and 1907. The 3-story structure sports 3 square towers with tile roofs. Square brick pillars support the front of the house, framing 3 walk-up porches. Two large trees grow from square gaps in the sidewalk in front. Smaller houses are visible at either side of the flats. Electric lines run overhead. The street is unpaved. According to the 1906 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, the Tolhurst apartment building had six apartments -- 726, 726-1/2, 728, 728-1/2, 730, and 730-1/2.

Creator C.C. Pierce & Co. (313 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, California) (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1903/1907

Subject Apartment houses (lcsh), Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Dr. Tolhurst Apartment House (subject), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Domestic -- Figueroa Street (file heading)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 726-730 South Figueroa Street (roadways), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1903/1907

Type images

Format 2 photographs : albumen photoprint, glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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)

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1722

Identifier 2484 (accession number), CHS-2484 (call number), CHS-2484 (filename), isla id: S-4658 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2579 (legacy record id), chs-m1722 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1774 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1775 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2579

Unique identifier UC116570

Legacy Identifier CHS-2484.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.6 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
42.3 cm × 33.7 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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