California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of "The Lindley", a Victorian building on the corner of Sixth Street between Broadway and Hill Street, Los Angeles, 1912

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Exterior view of "The Lindley", a Victorian building on the corner of Sixth Street between Broadway and Hill Street, Los Angeles, 1912

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Photograph of an exterior view of "The Lindley", a Victorian building on the corner of Sixth Street between Broadway and Hill Street, Los Angeles, 1912. Fruit is displayed in crates at the bottom of the building, which sports sun windows with striped cloth canopies over several of them, and balconies. Signs cover its lower entrance and its left side. The front end of an automobile is just barely visible in front of a second, smaller building to the right, which also features signs. A high rise building is visible in the background. Streetcar rails are embedded in the road. The building was built by Dr. Walter Lindley in 1887 and served as the first California hospital.; Legible signs, from left to right, include: "Mammoth Shoe House [...] Broadway", "Western Press Job Printing / Entrance 317 W. 6th Street", "Carpenter Paint", "Furnished Rooms", "Hennelly Hats / Manufacturer of Fur Felt Hats / 314 W. 6th Street / A New Style [...] / Silver / Collars 2 for 25¢ / Linocord Endless Buttonholes [...] / For Sale by M.A. Dyer Habadasher", "Coca-cola", "[...] Transient Rooms 50 [...]", "Removal Sale / $3.00 Hats for $2.00 $1.50 Caps for $1.00.", "Will Move Next Door Jan. 1st", "313 Clearing House Shoe Co.", "Men's Sewed Soles 75¢ Ladies Sewed Soles 50¢ Whole Sole Work a Specialty", and "Closing Out [...] Shoes Reduced".

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Title Exterior view of "The Lindley", a Victorian building on the corner of Sixth Street between Broadway and Hill Street, Los Angeles, 1912

Subject buildings (adlf), Clearing House Shoe Company (subject), Hats (lcsh), Hennelly Hats (subject), Hospitals (lcsh), Lindley Building (subject), Lindley, Walter, Dr. (subject), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Stores (1 of 2) (file heading), Markets (lcsh), Retail trade (lcsh), Shoes (lcsh), Signs and signboards (lcsh)

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Place California (states), Downtown Los Angeles (city or populated place), Hennelly Hats (manmade features), Lindley Buliding (manmade features), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Mammoth Shoe House (manmade features), Sixth Street between Broadway & Hill Streets (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1912

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (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 1912

Creator C.C. Pierce & Co. (photographer), Lindly, Walter (dr.)

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-m1417

Identifier 7366 (accession number), CHS-7366 (call number), CHS-7366 (filename), isla id: 1-8-36 (identifying number), isla id: S-4610 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2284 (legacy record id), chs-m1417 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1463 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2284

Unique identifier UC116123

Legacy Identifier CHS-7366.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.6 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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