California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Drawing by E.S. Glover depicting Los Angeles looking West, including an inlay of individual buildings in detail at bottom, 1871

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Drawing by E.S. Glover depicting Los Angeles looking West, including an inlay of individual buildings in detail at bottom, 1871

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Photograph of a drawing by E.S. Glover depicting Los Angeles looking West, including an inlay of individual buildings in detail at bottom, 1871. The city is shown from above, the first major street visible being Alameda Street along the bottom edge. To the right, First Street runs perpendicular to this. The hills are visible in the distance, while along the bottom of the main image, a collection of nine smaller images depict buildings of interest in detail. Two more of these buildings are inlaid at either bottom corner of the main image.; The buildings from left to right include: St. Vincent College, Downey Block, Hellman Block, Bella Union Hotel, Bells Block, Residence of W. Woodworth Laur, the United States Hotel, the Lafayette Hotel, Pico House, Temple Block and Chairitable Institute.

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Title Drawing by E.S. Glover depicting Los Angeles looking West, including an inlay of individual buildings in detail at bottom, 1871

Subject cities (adlf), Los Angeles -- General -- Drawings (file heading), Los Angeles -- General views -- Illustrations (1 of 2) (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1871

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), 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 1871

Creator Glover, E.S. (artist)

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-m3006

Identifier 12887 (accession number), CHS-12887 (call number), CHS-12887 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3993 (legacy record id), chs-m3006 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-3078 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3993

Unique identifier UC116108

Legacy Identifier CHS-12887.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 35.2 cm at 300dpi

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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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