California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Lankershim Boulevard, later North Hollywood Boulevard, in the town of Lankershim in the San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1927

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Lankershim Boulevard, later North Hollywood Boulevard, in the town of Lankershim in the San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1927

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Photograph of Lankershim Boulevard, later North Hollywood Boulevard, in the town of Lankershim in the San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1927. Cars drive and park down either side of the two-lane, paved road. People walk the sidewalks along the shopfronts of commercial buildings. Telephone poles are visible down the left side, as well as two telephone lines stretching across the frame from left to right. Legible signs include: "Soda / Drugs", "Hardware", "Hotel", "Real Estate", "[...]'s Variety Store" and "Godwin's Drugs".

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Title Lankershim Boulevard, later North Hollywood Boulevard, in the town of Lankershim in the San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1927

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1927

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Los Angeles -- San Fernando Valley -- Streets (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Lankershim Boulevard & Chandler Street (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), North Hollywood (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1927

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)

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-m4358

Identifier 6620 (accession number), CHS-6620 (call number), CHS-6620 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4752 (legacy record id), chs-m4358 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-4450 (legacy record id), 1-49- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4752

Unique identifier UC120133

Legacy Identifier CHS-6620.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.6 in × 13.9 in at 300dpi
44.7 cm × 35.5 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

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