California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Lincoln Heights from Elysian Park, location of the new Tujunga Parkway, Los Angeles, February 9, 1928

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View of Lincoln Heights from Elysian Park, location of the new Tujunga Parkway, Los Angeles, February 9, 1928

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Photograph of a panoramic view of Lincoln Heights from Elysian Park, location of the new Tujunga Parkway, Los Angeles, February 9, 1928. A hill covered with dry grass in the left foreground obscures an overpass at center. Dayton Avenue (later Figueroa Street) cut through the center of the frame from the right bottom corner, residential Los Angeles following above it in the frame, stretching towards the mountains on the horizon.

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Title View of Lincoln Heights from Elysian Park, location of the new Tujunga Parkway, Los Angeles, February 9, 1928

Subject Bridges (lcsh), Los Angeles -- East Los Angeles (file heading), Los Angeles -- Parks -- Elysian Park (file heading), Railroads (lcsh), rivers (lcsh), roadways (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Figueroa Street (Dayton Avenue) (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), parks: Elysian Park (geographic subject), Tujunga Parkway (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1928-02-09

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 1928-02-09

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-m2197

Identifier 7075 (accession number), CHS-7075 (call number), CHS-7075 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3128 (legacy record id), chs-m2197 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2258 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3676 (legacy record id), 1-13-38 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3128

Unique identifier UC120434

Legacy Identifier CHS-7075.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.5 in × 12.8 in at 300dpi
47.0 cm × 32.5 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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