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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of the entrance to the Wiltern Theater, 1931
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View of the entrance to the Wiltern Theater, 1931
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Description
Photograph of a view of the entrance to the Wiltern Theater, 1931. The ticket booth is shown at center, below the large ornate overhang of the theater itself. In the left background, a traffic light can be seen, beyond which commercial shops line the street.; The film "Alexander Hamilton" starring George Arliss was released on September 12, 1939.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of the entrance to the Wiltern Theater, 1931
Subject
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Theaters -- General
(file heading),
performance sites
(adlf),
Theaters
(lcsh),
Wiltern Theater
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries),
Wilshire Boulevard & Western Boulevard
(roadway)
Temporal Subject
1931
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
1931
Contributor
Stone, Jim
(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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1440
Identifier
41350 (
accession number
), CHS-41350 (
call number
), CHS-41350 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2306 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1440 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-1485 (
legacy record id
), 86-3-43 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2306
Unique identifier
UC115579
Legacy Identifier
CHS-41350.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.5 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
52.1 cm × 41.2 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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