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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Aerial view of the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue looking north during and aviation fair, Los Angeles, 1920
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Aerial view of the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue looking north during and aviation fair, Los Angeles, 1920
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Description
Photograph of an aerial view of the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue looking north during and aviation fair, Los Angeles, 1920. Automobile are parked off the roads at the fringes of the open fields that skirt them. Oil fields are visible along with mountains in the background, while at center, people crowd around a collection of airplanes that are situated next to small vendor booths. In a field in the left background, a building shows a sign which reads "Mercury Aviation Company".
Asset Metadata
Title
Aerial view of the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue looking north during and aviation fair, Los Angeles, 1920
Subject
airport features
(adlf),
Airports
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Wilshire Boulevard (1 of 3)
(file heading),
Oil wells
(lcsh),
Sid Chaplin Airport
(subject),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Fairfax Avenue
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries),
Wilshire Boulevard
(roadway)
Temporal Subject
1920
Type
images
Format
3 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 10 x13 cm., 13 x 18 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
1920
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-m416
Identifier
7461 (
accession number
), CHS-7461 (
call number
), CHS-7461 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-5282 (
legacy record id
), chs-m416 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-414 (
legacy record id
), 1-12-20 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
5282
Unique identifier
UC119429
Legacy Identifier
CHS-7461.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.3 in × 14.7 in at 300dpi
46.5 cm × 37.5 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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