California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

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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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".

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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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

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

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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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