California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of San Fernando Boulevard at Angeleno looking north in Burbank, Los Angeles, ca.1927

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View of San Fernando Boulevard at Angeleno looking north in Burbank, Los Angeles, ca.1927

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Photograph of a view of San Fernando Boulevard at Angeleno Avenue looking north in Burbank, Los Angeles, ca.1927. Automobiles drive and park along the boulevard, lined to either side by commercial shop buildings, showing a Victorian-style theater in the left foreground. Pedestrians stroll the street and the sidewalks. Streetlamps can be seen at each corner. Legible signs include: "Now Showing Leading Photoplays", "Hotel", "Service Station", "Bon-Ton Cleaners & Tailors", "Soda", "Radcl[...] Reality Co.", "Dr. H.L. [...] Chirop[odist]", "Boston Store", "Oldsmobile Peerless / R.A. McLean Motor Sales", "Café", "Love[...]", and "Hardware / Paints Oils Glass".

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Title View of San Fernando Boulevard at Angeleno looking north in Burbank, Los Angeles, ca.1927

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

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1922/1932

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Burbank (city or populated place), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), San Fernando Road at Angeleno Avenue (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1922/1932

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-m4357

Identifier 6807 (accession number), CHS-6807 (call number), CHS-6807 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4699 (legacy record id), chs-m4357 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-4449 (legacy record id), 1-49- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4699

Unique identifier UC120157

Legacy Identifier CHS-6807.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 35.1 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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