California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Birdseye view of the Los Angles Plaza, 1878

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Birdseye view of the Los Angles Plaza, 1878

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Photograph of a birdseye view of the Los Angles Plaza, 1878. The Pico House, Plaza Catholic Church, Plaza and Lugo House can be seen, as well as tanks from the gas company located just south of the church. The three-story Pico House hotel is at the extreme right of the picture, and the roof and the cupola of the Plaza Church, properly known as Church of Our Lady Queen of the Angels, is at the extreme left. The plaza itself contains several rows of trees, ranging from very short ones on the outside, to medium trees in the middle and tall ones in the innermost circle. There is also short fence separating the outermost row of trees from the next row.

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Title Birdseye view of the Los Angles Plaza, 1878

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1878

Subject Churches (lcsh), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Landscape architecture (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Plaza #1 -- General views -- 1860 to 1879 (file heading), Parks (lcsh), residential sites (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1878

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)

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-m2384

Identifier 9589 (accession number), CHS-9589 (call number), CHS-9589 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3309 (legacy record id), chs-m2384 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-2445 (legacy record id), 1-14- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3309

Unique identifier UC120314

Legacy Identifier CHS-9589.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.9 in × 19.7 in at 300dpi
40.6 cm × 50.2 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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