California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of Union Station with Terminal Annex Post Office in the bakcground, 1940

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Exterior view of Union Station with Terminal Annex Post Office in the bakcground, 1940

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Photograph of the exterior view of Union Station with Terminal Annex Post Office in the bakcground, 1940. The Union Station's clock tower, the most prominent feature of the building, is situated at the corner of the building, near the parking lot where numerous cars are parked. Palm trees line the streets in front of the building.

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Title Exterior view of Union Station with Terminal Annex Post Office in the bakcground, 1940

Subject Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Train stations -- Union Station (file heading), post office buildings (adlf), Postal service -- Buildings (lcsh), Railroads -- Stations (lcsh), Union Station (subject), United States Postal Service (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1940

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), 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)

Date Created 1940

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-m1545

Identifier 8272 (accession number), CHS-8272 (call number), CHS-8272 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2407 (legacy record id), chs-m1545 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1593 (legacy record id), 1-63- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2407

Unique identifier UC116339

Legacy Identifier CHS-8272.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.4 in × 15.4 in at 300dpi
49.3 cm × 39.1 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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