California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the Fifth Street Department Store, on the corner of Broadway and Fifth Street, ca.1902

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Exterior view of the Fifth Street Department Store, on the corner of Broadway and Fifth Street, ca.1902

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Photograph (streetscape) of the exterior view of the Fifth Street Store, on the corner of Broadway and Fifth Street, ca.1902. The building stands about four-stories tall. The first floor is mostly window displays. The inner windows on the second and third floor are contained within an arch. The inner windows on the third floor have decorative columns flanking them. To the left of the building is the Los Angeles Examiner building. Two men loiter at the corner of the building next to a lamp post.; Legible signs include: "[Los Ang]eles Examiner", "509", "The Fifth Street Store, something doing", "Steele, Faris & Walker Co.", "importers, jobbers, wholesale, retail", "Fifth St.", "lace curtains, tapestries, matting, linoleum, furniture, [...]bed", "liquor store", "Hollywood Candy Company, 507, ice cream".

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Title Exterior view of the Fifth Street Department Store, on the corner of Broadway and Fifth Street, ca.1902

Subject buildings (adlf), Fifth Street Store (subject), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Stores (1 of 2) (file heading), Retail trade (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Broadway & Fifth Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1902

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1902

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-m1396

Identifier 5130 (accession number), CHS-5130 (call number), CHS-5130 (filename), isla id: S-4633 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2265 (legacy record id), chs-m1396 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1443 (legacy record id), 1-2-51 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2265

Unique identifier UC116011

Legacy Identifier CHS-5130.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.6 in × 15.7 in at 300dpi
49.8 cm × 39.9 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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