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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Los Angeles hardware store, ca.1880
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Los Angeles hardware store, ca.1880
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Description
Photograph of a Los Angeles hardware store, ca.1880. Hardware goods line the sidewalk in front of the store's elaborate columned façade. Spread out among the goods are eight men and a boy, all of whom are posing for the camera. Legible signs and advertisements include, from left to right, "Ladies [...] men", "The King [...] Paint", "The Chicago White Lead & Oil Co.", "Acme Gasoline Can", "Universal Stoves and Ranges have no equal", "Sole Agency for C. T. Raynolds & Co. 'House & Villa' Pure Liquid Paints", "Solid Comfort", "Buchanan Room", "Pasadena", and "19".
Asset Metadata
Title
Los Angeles hardware store, ca.1880
Subject
buildings
(adlf),
Hardware stores
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Stores (1 of 2)
(file heading),
Retail trade
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1880
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
1880
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1416
Identifier
10512 (
accession number
), CHS-10512 (
call number
), CHS-10512 (
filename
), isla id: S-4629 (
identifying number
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2283 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1416 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-1462 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2283
Unique identifier
UC115842
Legacy Identifier
CHS-10512.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.3 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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