Crowd attending Opening Day at Union Station, April 1, 1939

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Title Crowd attending Opening Day at Union Station, April 1, 1939

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.

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1939-04-01

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:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,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)

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-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

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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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