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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Los Angeles and Independence Railroad Depot, San Pedro Street & Fourth Street, before 1888
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Los Angeles and Independence Railroad Depot, San Pedro Street & Fourth Street, before 1888
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Description
Photograph of the exterior of the Los Angeles and Independence Railroad Depot, San Pedro Street and Fourth Street, south of Fifth Street, before 1888. The wood Victorian building has two three-story square towers with wrought iron work at their apexes, with dormer windows in the roofs of the towers and small decorative balconies on the Second-story windows. A statue of a sphinx stands guard at the right of several doors at the head of a wide set of stairs on the left side of the building. A group of about six people are gathered on the platform near the end of a rail car (one is on the car) on the right side of the building. The railroad line, which extended to Santa Monica, was taken over by Southern Pacific, and the station was destroyed by fire in November, 1888.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Asset Metadata
Title
Los Angeles and Independence Railroad Depot, San Pedro Street & Fourth Street, before 1888
Subject
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Train stations
(file heading),
Los Angeles and Independence Railroad
(subject),
R.R. Depot
(subject),
railroad features
(adlf),
Railroads -- Stations
(lcsh),
Train Station
(subject),
Transportation
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Downtown Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Independence Railroad Depot
(manmade features),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
San Pedro Street & 4th Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Geocoordinate
34.0456,-118.24208 (
point
), 34.04577,-118.24231 (
point
), 34.04578,-118.24185 (
point
), 34.04606,-118.24212 (
point
)
Temporal Subject
1888
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
1888
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
(photographer)
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-m1529
Identifier
3213 (
accession number
), CHS-3213 (
call number
), S-4638 (
call number
), CHS-3213 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2391 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1529 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-1577 (
legacy record id
), 1-119-9 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2391
Unique identifier
UC116096
Legacy Identifier
CHS-3213.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.3 in × 15.1 in at 300dpi
41.4 cm × 38.4 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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