California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the Van Nuys mansion in downtown Los Angeles, ca.1904

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Exterior view of the Van Nuys mansion in downtown Los Angeles, ca.1904

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Van Nuys mansion in downtown Los Angeles, ca.1904. The massive building is on a hill at center. It is three stories high and has very steeply sloped roofs. A tall cylindrical tower can be seen on the corner of the building at right. In the foreground, the hill is covered with neatly trimmed grass, and a wide concrete walkway leads from the entrance to the home to the foreground at center. Another large house can be seen in the background at left, while a row of palm trees can be seen in the background at right. The house was later moved to Windsor Square on the northwest corner of Fourth Street and Lorraine Boulevard.

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Title Exterior view of the Van Nuys mansion in downtown Los Angeles, ca.1904

Subject Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), Dwellings (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Domestic -- Identified by owner -- S-Z (4 of 4) (file heading), residential sites (adlf), Van Nuys (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 715 South Spring Street (roadway), California (states), Downtown Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Van Nuys Mansion (manmade features)

Temporal Subject 1904

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegatives, 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 1904

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-m1585

Identifier 31388 (accession number), CHS-31388 (call number), CHS-31388 (filename), isla id: S-4415 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2444 (legacy record id), chs-m1585 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-1632 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2444

Unique identifier UC116015

Legacy Identifier CHS-31388.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.5 in × 15.5 in at 300dpi
49.5 cm × 39.4 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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