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Portrait of men standing outside the Woodhead and Gay Store, Los Angeles, ca.1880
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Portrait of men standing outside the Woodhead and Gay Store, Los Angeles, ca.1880
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Description
Photographic portrait of men standing outside the Woodhead and Gay Store on 46 and 48 north Spring Street, Los Angeles, ca.1880. Four men stand posed in front of the Woodhead & Gay General Store next to a horse-drawn cart to the right of them in back of which a fifth man stands, while several others in the background move along or seem uninterested in the photograph. A plow and other, boxed goods are piled in front of one of the men to the left. The general store itself is one story tall features three large panes for display windows, and extends eaves over the group of men. The H.J. Woollacott liquor store is also visible to the right.; Signs include: "Fruit Domestic & Foreign / Green Dried and Canned Nuts and Honey", "Woodhead & Gay Commission Merchants. Wholesale & Retail Dealers in General Produce.", "Trees Fruit and Ornamental / Shrubs, Plants, Flower, Field and Garden Seeds.", and "H.J. Woollacott, Fine Liquors / Wholesale Wine & Liquor". A man at the entrance to the general store appears either edited out or faded by motion. Picture File Card reads "Mr. Bell was bookkeeper, L.E. Myers was head clerk.".
Asset Metadata
Title
Portrait of men standing outside the Woodhead and Gay Store, Los Angeles, ca.1880
Subject
commercial sites
(adlf),
Horses
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Markets -- Woodhead and Gay
(file heading),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Markets #1
(file heading),
Signs and signboards
(lcsh),
Stores, Retail
(lcsh),
Wagons
(lcsh),
Woodhead and Gay Commission Merchants
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
46 & 38 North Spring Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1875/1885
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
1875/1885
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-m1345
Identifier
7056 (
accession number
), CHS-7056 (
call number
), CHS-7056 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2218 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1345 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-1391 (
legacy record id
), 1-9-99 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2218
Unique identifier
UC116131
Legacy Identifier
CHS-7056.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.4 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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