Exterior view of the Shrine Auditorium at Jefferson Boulevard and Royal Street, January 11, 1920

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Shrine Auditorium at Jefferson Boulevard and Royal Street, January 11, 1920. The large, Arabesque auditorium is in the background at center. It has several small towers topped with onion-shaped roofs and a large arched doorway leads into the building at right. In the foreground at left is a small house with a covered porch and two stories. A grassy, landscaped lot is in the foreground at right and a wide dirt street runs across the image in the foreground. A network of utility wires crosses above the street.

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Title Exterior view of the Shrine Auditorium at Jefferson Boulevard and Royal Street, January 11, 1920

Subject Auditoriums (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Theaters -- Shrine Auditorium (file heading), performance sites (adlf), Shrine Auditorium (subject), Theaters (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 3244 Royal Street (roadway), California (states), Jefferson Street & Royal Streets (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Shrine Auditorium (manmade features), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1920-01-11

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (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 1920-01-11

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

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-m1441

Identifier 14079 (accession number), CHS-14079 (call number), CHS-14079 (filename), isla id: S-4624 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2307 (legacy record id), chs-m1441 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-1486 (legacy record id), 1-19- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2307

Unique identifier UC115795

Legacy Identifier CHS-14079.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.7 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
47.6 cm × 34.4 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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