California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the Rex Arms Apartments in Los Angeles, 1920-1929

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Exterior view of the Rex Arms Apartments in Los Angeles, 1920-1929

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Rex Arms Apartments in Los Angeles, 1920-1929. The seven-story apartment house is at center and is facing to the right. An awning covers the front entrance at right. Several small balconies protrude from the front of the buildings at right. The side of the building at left is very plain and contains many small rectangular windows. A collection of early automobiles is parked in the foreground at right, and several people are visible there are well. Palm trees can be seen on both sides of the building.

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Title Exterior view of the Rex Arms Apartments in Los Angeles, 1920-1929

Subject Apartment houses (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Domestic -- Apartment buildings (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1920/1929

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 1920/1929

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1751

Identifier 32423 (accession number), CHS-32423 (call number), CHS-32423 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2608 (legacy record id), chs-m1751 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1803 (legacy record id), USC (project), 3 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2608

Unique identifier UC116323

Legacy Identifier CHS-32423.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.6 in × 15.6 in at 300dpi
49.8 cm × 39.6 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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