California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View looking east on Pasadena Avenue in Highland Park, ca.1894-1986

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View looking east on Pasadena Avenue in Highland Park, ca.1894-1986

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Photograph of a view looking east on Pasadena Avenue (formerly North Figueroa Street) in Highland Park, ca.1894-1986. Principally rural with agricultural plots and orchards to the left, and suburban with many dwellings among trees to the right. The railroad track swings across the foreground and to the left. Mountains are visible in the background.

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Title View looking east on Pasadena Avenue in Highland Park, ca.1894-1986

Subject Highland Park and Garvanza (subject), Los Angeles -- Highland Park -- General views #1 (file heading), railroad features (adlf), Railroads -- Track (lcsh), roadways (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Highland Park (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Pasadena Avenue (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1894/1986

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photoprint, photonegative, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm., 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)

Date Created 1894/1986

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-m2947

Identifier 1226 (accession number), CHS-1226 (call number), CHS-1226 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3842 (legacy record id), chs-m2947 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3020 (legacy record id), 1-30- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3842

Unique identifier UC115909

Legacy Identifier CHS-1226.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 22.5 in × 17.5 in at 300dpi
57.3 cm × 44.4 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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