Aerial view looking east at a fire at the Shrine Auditorium, 1920

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Title Aerial view looking east at a fire at the Shrine Auditorium, 1920

Description Photograph of an aerial view looking east at a fire at the Shrine Auditorium, 1920. Very little of the Arabesque building itself can be seen, as the walls are obscured by trees, and a large plume of smoke covers the roof of the building. The smoke reaches from the building to the top of the image. The University of Southern California is in the foreground; its track stadium is in the lower left corner. The 6,500 seat Shrine burned down on January 11, 1920, and it took six years to rebuild.

Creator C.C. Pierce & Co. (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1920-01-11

Subject Auditoriums (lcsh), cities (adlf), Disasters (lcsh), Disasters -- Fires (file heading), Fires (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Theaters -- Shrine Auditorium (file heading), Shrine Auditorium (subject), Theaters (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 3224 Royal Street (roadways), California (states), Jefferson Street (roadways), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Shrine Auditorium (manmade features), University of Southern California (manmade features), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1920-01-11

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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)

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-m1444

Identifier 9924 (accession number), CHS-9924 (call number), CHS-9924 (filename), isla id: S-4625 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2310 (legacy record id), chs-m1444 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10072 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1489 (legacy record id), 1- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2310

Unique identifier UC116121

Legacy Identifier CHS-9924.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.7 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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