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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Birdseye view of the interior of the May Company Department Store, located at Broadway and Eighth Street, April 1942
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Birdseye view of the interior of the May Company Department Store, located at Broadway and Eighth Street, April 1942
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Description
Photograph of a birdseye view of the interior of the May Company Department Store, located at Broadway and Eighth Street, April 1942. Shoppers walk through aisles and crowd around sales displays in the May Company Department store. Visible items for sale include luggage and neckties. The interior space is marked by rows of thick, light-colored columns, while hanging light fixtures are suspended from the ceiling.
Asset Metadata
Title
Birdseye view of the interior of the May Company Department Store, located at Broadway and Eighth Street, April 1942
Subject
commercial sites
(adlf),
Department stores
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Stores (2 of 2)
(file heading),
May Company
(subject),
Retail trade
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Broadway & 8th Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1942-04-23
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
1942-04-23
Creator
Curtis, Luther (Foster & Kleiser)
(photographer)
Contributor
Foster & Kleiser
(donor)
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-m1398
Identifier
31145 (
accession number
), CHS-31145 (
call number
), CHS-31145 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2267 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1398 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-1445 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2267
Unique identifier
UC115687
Legacy Identifier
CHS-31145.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.9 in × 15.8 in at 300dpi
50.5 cm × 40.2 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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