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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Crowd attending Opening Day at Union Station, April 1, 1939
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Crowd attending Opening Day at Union Station, April 1, 1939
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Description
Photograph of a crowd attending Opening Day at Union Station, April 1, 1939. The large mass of people is in the foreground and stretches into the distance at right. The clock tower and arched entryway of Union Station are at left. The station is a large building with smooth light-colored walls and a massive arched window at left. The area directly in front of the station is decorated with palm trees and other trees, and a tall light post is visible at right. In the background at right are mores buildings. The clock on the rectangular tower of the station shows the time to be just after two o'clock.
Asset Metadata
Title
Crowd attending Opening Day at Union Station, April 1, 1939
Subject
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Train stations -- Union Station
(file heading),
railroad features
(adlf),
Railroads -- Stations
(lcsh),
Rites and ceremonies
(lcsh),
Union Station
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1939-04-01
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 10 x 13 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
1939-04-01
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-m1548
Identifier
13047 (
accession number
), CHS-13047 (
call number
), CHS-13047 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2410 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1548 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-1596 (
legacy record id
), 1-119-69 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2410
Unique identifier
UC116017
Legacy Identifier
CHS-13047.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.0 in × 15.0 in at 300dpi
48.3 cm × 38.2 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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