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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Spring Street near the corner of Second Street, showing a block of shop fronts, ca.1895
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View of Spring Street near the corner of Second Street, showing a block of shop fronts, ca.1895
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Description
Photograph of a view of Spring Street near the corner of Second Street, showing a block of shop fronts, ca.1895. A dirty, paved street cuts across the width of the image, railcar tracks visible embedded in the pavement. To the right, the wheel of a cart or automobile is visible, while shown in the background is a line of flat-roofed one-story buildings occupied by shops. Written on the negative are arrows labeling parts of the block: "Corner", "Mrs. Longstreet 24 ft.", "Mrs. Drake 31 ft.", "Mrs. Miner and Alfred 65 ft.", "South [...]".; Legible signs from left to right include: "Sudenberg & Co. Fine Havana Cigars", "Made of the finest Vuelta Abajo", "Telegraph Office", "Duffin's Overland Cut Rate Ticket Office", "Rail Road Tickets Bought Sold and Exchanged. Cut rates to all points Member A.T.B.A. Excursion tickets bought and sold", "Frank M. Kelsey Real Estate. Insurance", "Los Angeles Pressed Brick and Terra Cotta Co.", "Burlington Route Overland Ticket Office. Weekly Excursions to the East", "Oil and Gasoline", "Marcher [...] jewelry. Precious Stones. Wholesale & Retail. Opals", "Shaving 10 cents", "First Class 5 cent Shine", "Men's shoes: cost. Ladies' shoes: below cost", "J. Small Boots and Shoes. Repairing Done", "[...]onis Bros. wholesale dealers in Fruit and Produce", "Woodbury Business College", "Stoves, Agate Irons, Tinware", "The Fair", "Crockery, Glass Wood and Willow-ware", "Cutlery, Silverware, Toys Etc.", and "Dye".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Spring Street near the corner of Second Street, showing a block of shop fronts, ca.1895
Subject
commercial sites
(adlf),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Stores (2 of 2)
(file heading),
Retail trade
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
2nd Street & Spring Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Downtown Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Los Angeles Pressed Brick and Terra Cotta Company
(manmade features),
Telegraph Office
(manmade features),
USA
(countries),
Woodbury Business College
(manmade features)
Geocoordinate
34.05132,-118.24469 (
point
), 34.05162,-118.24511 (
point
), 34.05167,-118.24418 (
point
), 34.05197,-118.24469 (
point
)
Temporal Subject
1895
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 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
1895
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-m1412
Identifier
12626 (
accession number
), CHS-12626 (
call number
), CHS-12626 (
filename
), isla id: S-4605 (
identifying number
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2280 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1412 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-1458 (
legacy record id
), 1-9-124 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2280
Unique identifier
UC115693
Legacy Identifier
CHS-12626.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.7 in × 15.8 in at 300dpi
50.0 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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