California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Wilshire Boulevard at Kip Street, looking east toward downtown, showing road widening and improvement, December 1934

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View of Wilshire Boulevard at Kip Street, looking east toward downtown, showing road widening and improvement, December 1934

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Photograph of a view of Wilshire Boulevard at Kip Street, looking east toward downtown, showing road widening and improvement, December 1934. Wilshire Boulevard is bordered by piles of dirt in the foreground, while its dirt lanes are occupied by construction equipment and Department of Public Works workers. Men stand on the dirt in the right foreground, near a sign on a wooden fence that reads "Slow. Danger". Automobiles are parked in a lot in the left centerground, while another lot is advertized by a sign reading "Entrance. Auto Park. All Day. 10 Cents" in the right centerground. Many commercial buildings are visible in the background, including highrises and the "Paul G. Hoffman Co. Inc. [?] Service".

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Title View of Wilshire Boulevard at Kip Street, looking east toward downtown, showing road widening and improvement, December 1934

Subject Los Angeles -- Streets -- Wilshire Boulevard (1 of 3) (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets -- Maintenance and repair (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1934-12-06

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 1934-12-06

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-m475

Identifier 31229 (accession number), CHS-31229 (call number), CHS-31229 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5261 (legacy record id), chs-m475 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-472 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5261

Unique identifier UC119395

Legacy Identifier CHS-31229.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.1 in × 15.6 in at 300dpi
51.2 cm × 39.7 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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