California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Exterior view of the Sisters' Orphans Home on Seventh Street and Boyle Avenue in Boyle Heights, ca.1890

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Exterior view of the Sisters' Orphans Home on Seventh Street and Boyle Avenue in Boyle Heights, ca.1890

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Photograph of the exterior of the Sisters' Orphans Home on Seventh Street and Boyle Avenue in Boyle Heights, ca.1890. The four-story Romanesque stone building is surrounded by fields in which grow trees, grass and other plants. A tall bell tower with a stone cross on top towers over the main entry. A set of broad stairs supply an additional entry at left. A woman(?) is standing near the dirt road which passes in front of the building. The cornerstone was laid February 9, 1890.

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Title Exterior view of the Sisters' Orphans Home on Seventh Street and Boyle Avenue in Boyle Heights, ca.1890

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1890-02-09

Subject Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Orphanages (file heading), Orphanages (lcsh), Orphans (lcsh), residential sites (adlf), Sisters' Orphans Home (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 7th Street & Boyle Avenue (roadway), Boyle Heights (city or populated place), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1890-02-09

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photoprint, glass photonegative, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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)

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-m1834

Identifier 2456 (accession number), CHS-2456 (call number), CHS-2456 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2691 (legacy record id), chs-m1834 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1886 (legacy record id), 1-63- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2691

Unique identifier UC116239

Legacy Identifier CHS-2456.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.7 in × 17.0 in at 300dpi
52.6 cm × 43.3 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

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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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