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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Exterior view of E.C. Fisher's store on the west side of South Main Street, north of Washington Boulevard in Los Angeles, ca.1890
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Exterior view of E.C. Fisher's store on the west side of South Main Street, north of Washington Boulevard in Los Angeles, ca.1890
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Description
Photograph of an exterior view of E.C. Fisher's store on the west side of South Main Street, north of Washington Boulevard in Los Angeles, ca.1890. The store is in a long single story building that reaches from the left of the image to the right. It has an overhang that covers a walkway in front of the large glass windows of the store. There are four men standing on this walkway, and there is a small amount of merchandise, including melons, wash tubs, and ropes, arranged in front as well. Legible signs include, from left to right, "Examiner sold here", "News Depot Stationery", "Tinware Hardware", "Staple & Fancy Groceries", "Produce Tea & Coffee", "Window glass Paintbrushes", "The Broad-Guage", "Ranch Eggs Wanted", and "Under we[ar] Notion[?]".; "Portrait of Fisher's Broad-Guage Department Store. There is a large hotel apartment building on this corner, The Rutland, owned by the Central and Broad-Guage Department. Store owned by E. C. Fisher, located on the west side of Main Street just north of the northwest corner of Washington--the corner occupied by Henry Coch's Saloon. On the southwest corner of Main and Washington was Dave Waldron's old Washington Gardens, later Luna Park. Opposite, on the northeast corner, was the Main Street and Agricultural Park Streetcar Horse Barns and on the southeast corner was one Louis Martin's Saloon. The man on the right was one of my photographers, the boy in short-sleeves is myself, the man on the steps--E.A. Butterfield, and the policeman is a Mr. Kemp" -- Signed, J. H. Crum 331 Palisades Avenue, Santa Monica, CA, 1935
Asset Metadata
Title
Exterior view of E.C. Fisher's store on the west side of South Main Street, north of Washington Boulevard in Los Angeles, ca.1890
Subject
Broad-Guage Department Store
(subject),
commercial sites
(adlf),
Department stores
(lcsh),
Fisher, E.C.
(subject),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Stores (2 of 2)
(file heading),
Retail trade
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Broad-Guage Hardware and Department Store
(manmade features),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Main Street, north of Washington Boulevard
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Geocoordinate
34.03065,-118.26335 (
point
), 34.03139,-118.26302 (
point
), 34.03141,-118.26385 (
point
), 34.03202,-118.26332 (
point
)
Temporal Subject
1890
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1890
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-m1415
Identifier
11189 (
accession number
), CHS-11189 (
call number
), CHS-11189 (
filename
), isla id: S-4608 (
identifying number
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2282 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1415 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-1461 (
legacy record id
), 1-6-145 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2282
Unique identifier
UC115841
Legacy Identifier
CHS-11189.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.0 in × 12.7 in at 300dpi
45.7 cm × 32.5 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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