California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of an area south of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue looking west, (possibly at Rogers Airport), ca.1920

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View of an area south of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue looking west, (possibly at Rogers Airport), ca.1920

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Photograph of a view of an area south of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, looking west, (possibly at Rogers Airport) Los Angeles, ca.1920. An asymmetrical building stands to the right of center with a large circular window cut into most of its exterior wall. Dry sedge grass fills the flatland in the foreground. Utility poles and mountains can be seen in the background to the left.

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Title View of an area south of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue looking west, (possibly at Rogers Airport), ca.1920

Subject airport features (adlf), Airports (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Wilshire Boulevard (1 of 3) (file heading), Rogers Airport (subject), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Fairfax Avenue (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Wilshire Boulevard (roadway)

Temporal Subject 1915/1925

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 1915/1925

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-m418

Identifier 7011 (accession number), CHS-7011 (call number), CHS-7011 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5281 (legacy record id), chs-m418 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-416 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5281

Unique identifier UC119622

Legacy Identifier CHS-7011.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.9 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.0 cm × 35.0 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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