Sisters' Hospital, Sunset Boulevard, ca.1910

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Photograph of the exterior of Sisters' Hospital, Sunset Boulevard, ca.1910. A seven-story octagonal tower topped with a dome rises on the corner of the four-story Mission-revival building. A cross is on top of the dome. A road follows a low stone wall up toward the hospital which is build on a rise. The grounds consist principally of a grassy lawn. There are some trees at right and next to the building. A few small shrubs line the road opposite the wall.

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Title Sisters' Hospital, Sunset Boulevard, ca.1910

Subject Hospitals (subject), Hospitals (lcsh), LA (LA) Architecture -- Hospitals (subject), Los Angeles City -- Architecture -- Hospitals -- General (file heading), medical facilities (adlf), Sisters' Hospital (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Sunset Boulevard (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1910

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1910

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1796

Identifier 2447 (accession number), CHS-2447 (call number), CHS-2447 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2653 (legacy record id), chs-m1796 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1848 (legacy record id), 1-63- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2653

Unique identifier UC116345

Legacy Identifier CHS-2447.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.0 in × 15.2 in at 300dpi
48.4 cm × 38.6 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

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