California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the hospital of the Veterans Hospital on Wilshire Boulevard in Brentwood, ca.1930

(USC DC Image)

Exterior view of the hospital of the Veterans Hospital on Wilshire Boulevard in Brentwood, ca.1930

Loading details...

You do not have the permission to view Original image

Photograph of an exterior view of the hospital of the Veterans Hospital on Wilshire Boulevard in Brentwood, ca.1930. The six-story, light-colored hospital is at center. It is a complex of several similar looking buildings. Wilshire Boulevard is in the foreground and runs across the image from left to right. The street is lined with short palm trees and empty fields.

Asset Metadata

Title Exterior view of the hospital of the Veterans Hospital on Wilshire Boulevard in Brentwood, ca.1930

Subject Hospitals (lcsh), medical facilities (adlf), National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (subject), Veterans Administration (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (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 1930

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-m2430

Identifier 14064 (accession number), CHS-14064 (call number), CHS-14064 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3352 (legacy record id), chs-m2430 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2491 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3352

Unique identifier UC120517

Legacy Identifier CHS-14064.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 10.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 27.2 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

Conceptually similar

Medical staff members standing in front of the hospital at the Soldiers Home in Sawtelle, ca.1905

Exterior view of Sisters' Hospital on Sunset Boulevard, [s.d.]

Exterior view of Temple B'Nai B'Rith on Wilshire Boulevard, ca.1920

View of Wilshire Boulevard looking west towards the Wilshire Boulevard Christian Church, February 28, 1927

Exterior view of the State Hospital complex in Highland, ca.1900

Exterior view of the Verbeck Mansion, home of Hiram Higgins, on Wilshire Boulevard, 1900

Exterior view of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Sawtelle, ca.1905

Exterior view of the State Hospital complex in Highland, ca.1900

Exterior view of the residence of N. E. Rice on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1900-1909

Exterior view of the Fresno County Hospital, ca.1910

View of Wilshire Boulevard looking east from Western Avenue in Los Angeles, ca.1930-1939

Exterior view of the home of General Harrison Gray Otis on Wilshire Boulevard, ca.1890-1898

Widening of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, February 28, 1927

St. Vincent's Hospital viewed from Sunset Boulevard, ca.1885-1888

Wilshire District (Wilshire Boulevard), Los Angeles, ca.1890

California Hospital, Fifteenth Street and Hope Street, [s.d.]

Aerial view looking east at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and San Vicente Boulevard, August 6, 1926

View of Wilshire Boulevard west from Bonnie Brae Street after widening, December 3, 1934

Birdseye view of Wilshire Boulevard looking north-west, ca.1937

View of Wilshire Boulevard looking northwest towards Hollywood from the Cathy Circle Theater, Los Angeles, ca.1930

Similar tones

View images with similar tones