California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the Sontag Drug Store, located at the northwest corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Cloverdale Avenue, 1941

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Exterior view of the Sontag Drug Store, located at the northwest corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Cloverdale Avenue, 1941

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Sontag Drug Store, located at the northwest corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Cloverdale Avenue, 1941. The Sontag Drug Store, designed by Anderson and Norstrom in the Art Deco style and completed in 1935, sits at center, its entrance just to the right of center. The building is light in color, with rounded corners, a tall chimney protruding from its right side, and darkly-colored awnings reading "AGFA Film" along the display windows that line its sides. A man stands on the concrete sidewalk to the left of a display rack reading "Today's Special" that sits in the entranceway, while another man walks from the left of the image toward the center. The foreground of the image shows the paved street and two automobiles in motion, with the front edge of a bus at the right side. Another automobile is parked at the left side of the image. A traffic light and a street light sit to the left of center, in front of the drug store; the street light bears the street signs for "Cloverdale" and "Wilshire". A bent street sign lower down on the street light reads "W[?] Take [?] Of [?] It's Com[?] Co[?]".; Legible signs on the building from left to right include: "Cut Rate Drugs", "Fountain Booths", "Sontag [Original] Cut Rate Drug Stores", and "Fountain Grill". Signs in the front windows read "Chicken A La King", "Tom Turkey", "Chicken Loaf", and "Today's Menu", "Fine Grain Developing", and "Price Sale".

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Title Exterior view of the Sontag Drug Store, located at the northwest corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Cloverdale Avenue, 1941

Subject buildings (adlf), Drugstores (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Stores (1 of 2) (file heading), Retail trade (lcsh), Sontag Drugstore (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Sontag Cut Rate Drug Store (manmade features), USA (countries), Wilshire Boulevard & Cloverdale Avenue (roadway)

Geocoordinate 34.0621,-118.34527 (point), 34.06229,-118.34517 (point), 34.06247,-118.34528 (point)

Temporal Subject 1941

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 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 1941

Creator Anderson (architect), Norstrom (architect), Stagg, Richard (photographer)

Contributor Foster & Kleiser (contributor)

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-m1408

Identifier 31016 (accession number), CHS-31016 (call number), CHS-31016 (filename), isla id: S-4595 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2276 (legacy record id), chs-m1408 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-1454 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2276

Unique identifier UC115696

Legacy Identifier CHS-31016.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.6 in × 19.8 in at 300dpi
39.7 cm × 50.5 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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