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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Van Nuys Boulevard looking north from Delano Street, Los Angeles, ca.1927
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View of Van Nuys Boulevard looking north from Delano Street, Los Angeles, ca.1927
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Description
Photograph of a view of Van Nuys Boulevard looking north from Delano Street, Los Angeles, ca.1927. Utility poles stand at the center of the frame, with lanes of automobile traffic to either side of them, as well as streetcar rails embedded in the boulevard. Small commercial buildings line the street to either side, cars parked along the sidewalks. Legible signs include: "Studebaker Allington-French Co. Studebaker", "Buick", "Farms", "Soda Pool Cigars", "Nash Motor Cars", "Ford Fords [...] Sales Service", "Real Estate / Mark Grimes & Co.", and "Hotel".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Van Nuys Boulevard looking north from Delano Street, Los Angeles, ca.1927
Subject
Automobiles
(lcsh),
Electric railroads--Rails
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- San Fernando Valley -- Van Nuys
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries),
Van Nuys
(city or populated place),
Van Nuys Boulevard at Delano Street
(roadway)
Temporal Subject
1927
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegatives, 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
1927
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-m4365
Identifier
6805 (
accession number
), CHS-6805 (
call number
), CHS-6805 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-4713 (
legacy record id
), chs-m4365 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-4457 (
legacy record id
), 1-49- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
4713
Unique identifier
UC120165
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6805.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.8 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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