California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Birdseye view of Los Angeles looking east from the City Hall tower at a proposed site for Union Station, ca.1931

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Birdseye view of Los Angeles looking east from the City Hall tower at a proposed site for Union Station, ca.1931

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Photograph of a birdseye view of Los Angeles looking east from the City Hall tower at a proposed site for Union Station, ca.1931. A railroad yard is visible on the left side of the image, and there are several trains stopped there. Directly past the railroad station, a factory is belching smoke from its smokestacks. In the bottom left corner is old Chinatown, with lots of traffic on the street and many cars parked in parking lots. Most of the city appears to be commercial, and almost all of the buildings have flat roofs and boxy exteriors. Legible signs include, from left to right, "F. See On Co. Chinese Art [...]", "Conomy", "Room", and "The Rome Company".

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Title Birdseye view of Los Angeles looking east from the City Hall tower at a proposed site for Union Station, ca.1931

Subject cities (adlf), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Train stations -- Union Station (file heading), Railroads -- Stations (lcsh), Union Station (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Alameda Street (roadway), Aliso Street (roadway), California (states), China Town (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Los Angeles Street (roadway), Macy Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1931

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 1931

Creator C.C. Pierce & Co. (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-m1551

Identifier 10218 (accession number), CHS-10218 (call number), CHS-10218 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2413 (legacy record id), chs-m1551 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1599 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2413

Unique identifier UC116125

Legacy Identifier CHS-10218.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.5 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

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