View of Western Avenue looking north from mid-block between 3rd and 4th Streets, Los Angeles, ca.1924

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Photograph (streetscape, horizontal photography) of Western Avenue at 3rd and 4th Streets. Third Street Commercial district with automobile traffic, a church and some residential housing at the south end. Streetcar is crossing the 3rd Street. A banner hung over the street reads, "Coolidge - Dawes - Fredericks." Photo credit to The C.C. Pierce Collection, Historical Photographs, 1572 West Pico Street, Los Angeles, California.

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Title View of Western Avenue looking north from mid-block between 3rd and 4th Streets, Los Angeles, ca.1924

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), City traffic (lcsh), Commercial (subject), Coolidge (subject), Dawes (subject), Fredericks (subject), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Western Avenue (file heading), Residence (subject), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Traffic congestion (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 3rd Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Western Avenue (roadway)

Geocoordinate 34.06713,-118.30819 (point), 34.0689,-118.30669 (point), 34.0689,-118.30962 (point), 34.07122,-118.3082 (point)

Temporal Subject 1924

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 1924

Creator C.C. Pierce & Co. (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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m402

Identifier 9039 (accession number), CHS-9039 (call number), CHS-9039 (filename), isla id: S-4727 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5611 (legacy record id), chs-m402 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-400 (legacy record id), 1-11-17 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5611

Unique identifier UC119376

Legacy Identifier CHS-9039.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.2 in × 16.1 in at 300dpi
51.3 cm × 40.9 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

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