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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Exterior view of the Mayan Theater, showing the Belasco Theater adjacent, ca.1925
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Exterior view of the Mayan Theater, showing the Belasco Theater adjacent, ca.1925
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Description
Photograph of an exterior view of the Mayan Theater, showing the Belasco Theater adjacent, ca.1925. The Mayan is shown to the left, its facade decorated with faux-Mayan relief carvings and its marquee displaying the sign "Elsie Janis in the Musical Comedy Oh Kay". Below, three easles can be seen affixed with what appear to be collections of photographs. Farther right, the Belasco can be seen, its marquee advertising Taylor Holmes in "The Great Necker". Automobiles can be seen parked along the sidewalk and making their way down the road in the foreground.
Asset Metadata
Title
Exterior view of the Mayan Theater, showing the Belasco Theater adjacent, ca.1925
Subject
Belasco Theater
(subject),
Janis, Elsie
(subject),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Theaters -- Mayan
(file heading),
Mayan Theater
(subject),
performance sites
(adlf),
Theaters
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1925
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 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
1925
Creator
Clements
(architect),
Morgan
(architect),
Walls
(architect)
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-m1455
Identifier
12895 (
accession number
), CHS-12895 (
call number
), CHS-12895 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2320 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1455 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-1500 (
legacy record id
), 1-19-8 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2320
Unique identifier
UC115847
Legacy Identifier
CHS-12895.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
13.5 in × 17.0 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 43.1 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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