Wall fountain in the foyer of the Mayan Theater, ca.1925

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Title Wall fountain in the foyer of the Mayan Theater, ca.1925

Description Photograph of a wall fountain in the foyer of the Mayan Theater, ca.1925. A statue of a dwafed figure is pictured at center, holding a basin over his head from which the water springs. This basin is a semicircle that attaches to the tiled wall behind the statue. To either side of the fountain, columns can be seen whose bases are shaped in the form of gila monster heads.

Creator Clements (architect), Morgan (architect), Padilla Company (photographer), Walls (architect)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1925

Subject Auditoriums (lcsh), Fountains (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Theaters -- Mayan (file heading), Mayan Theater (subject), performance sites (adlf), Theaters (lcsh)

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

Place 1040 South Hill Street (roadways), buildings: Mayan Theater (geographic subject), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1925

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 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-m1467

Identifier 12908 (accession number), CHS-12908 (call number), CHS-12908 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2331 (legacy record id), chs-m1467 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-1512 (legacy record id), 1-19-21 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2331

Unique identifier UC116046

Legacy Identifier CHS-12908.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.0 in × 19.2 in at 300dpi
35.7 cm × 48.8 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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