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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Central Market, showing many horses and wagons loaded with produce, Alameda Street and Sixth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1905
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View of Central Market, showing many horses and wagons loaded with produce, Alameda Street and Sixth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1905
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Photograph of a view of Central Market, showing many horses and wagons loaded with produce, Alameda Street and Sixth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1905. Throngs of horse-drawn carriages, shoppers, and sellers crowd into the large lot to either sell or buy fruits and produce. Many of the vendors have crates of fruits and vegetables on display either on their wagons or near it. The street in the foreground allows traffic to move through the lot. Utility poles line the center of the lot.; Legible signs include: "Theros Vlahos", "Office L.A. Public Market", "restaurant, 1260 1/2", "castro[...]", "Klein Fruit Co.", "C.W. Lung Produce Co., commission merchant and shipper", "Sam Lee Co.", "Southern Produce Co.", "Smith E. [...]", "Lem Wah Co.", "J. Longo Fruit Co.".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Central Market, showing many horses and wagons loaded with produce, Alameda Street and Sixth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1905
Subject
Central Market
(subject),
commercial sites
(adlf),
Horses
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Markets -- Central Market
(file heading),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Markets #1
(file heading),
Markets
(lcsh),
Wagons
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Alameda Street & 6th Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1905
Type
images
Format
3 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1905
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1365
Identifier
5633 (
accession number
), CHS-5633 (
call number
), CHS-5633 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2236 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1365 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-1411 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2236
Unique identifier
UC116020
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5633.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.9 in × 15.0 in at 300dpi
48.0 cm × 38.3 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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