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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Firefighters using a tall ladder to fight a fire on Hill Street, north of Second Street, 1915
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Firefighters using a tall ladder to fight a fire on Hill Street, north of Second Street, 1915
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Photograph of firefighters using a tall ladder to fight a fire on Hill Street, north of Second Street, 1915. The fire wagon is parked in front of a three story Victorian mansion on a hill, which is propped-up by a stone retaining wall with stairs running up the side. There are three horses hitched to the wagon, around which are gathered five firefighters. Two more firemen are on the ladder, one at the base, and the other at the top. There are other Victorian buildings on the right side of the street, and there is a fancy lamppost at the extreme right of the picture. In the streetcar track-scarred road, there is another wagon parked in front of a white obelisk, and on the left, two men in uniform gaze up at the top of the ladder. Picture file card identifies the photographer as Charles Puck, but a later note mistrusts this assertion due to the early date of the photograph.
Asset Metadata
Title
Firefighters using a tall ladder to fight a fire on Hill Street, north of Second Street, 1915
Subject
Fire fighters
(lcsh),
Fire-departments
(lcsh),
Fires
(lcsh),
Ladders, Aerial
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Fire department #2
(file heading),
Los Angeles Fire Department
(subject),
roadways
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Hill Street north of Second Street
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1915
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
1915
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
(photographer)
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-m2226
Identifier
9734 (
accession number
), CHS-9734 (
call number
), CHS-9734 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-3155 (
legacy record id
), chs-m2226 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-2287 (
legacy record id
), 1-17-14 (
microfiche number
), 1-5-87 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
), 11 (
unidentified no.
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
3155
Unique identifier
UC120310
Legacy Identifier
CHS-9734.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.0 in × 20.0 in at 300dpi
40.6 cm × 50.8 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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