California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Wilshire Boulevard near Hoover, 1920-1929

(USC DC Image)

View of Wilshire Boulevard near Hoover, 1920-1929

Loading details...

You do not have the permission to view Original image

Photograph of a view of Wilshire Boulevard near Hoover, 1920-1929. Automobiles can be seen on a paved road running from the foreground into the background over a hill. A several-story brick building with awnings over the rectangular windows can be seen at right just beyond a T-intersection. Two buildings with towers can be seen at left, just beyond residential-style buildings. A palm tree is visible in the right foreground. See CHS-36030.

Asset Metadata

Title View of Wilshire Boulevard near Hoover, 1920-1929

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1920/1929

Subject Los Angeles -- Streets -- Wilshire Boulevard (3 of 3) (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Hoover Street (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Wilshire Boulevard (roadway)

Temporal Subject 1920/1929

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (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-m424

Identifier 36682 (accession number), CHS-36682 (call number), CHS-36682 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5639 (legacy record id), chs-m424 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-421 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5639

Unique identifier UC119655

Legacy Identifier CHS-36682.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.4 in × 12.1 in at 300dpi
39.3 cm × 30.9 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

Linked assets

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

Conceptually similar

Widening of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, February 28, 1927

View of the sidewalk of Wilshire Boulevard's 3000 block, [s.d.]

Birdseye view of Figueroa Street at Wilshire Boulevard before the extension of Wilshire, ca.1931

View of Wilshire Boulevard west from Bonnie Brae Street after widening, December 3, 1934

West Adams Boulevard, near Hoover, ca.1902

Birdseye view of Wilshire Boulevard looking north-west, ca.1937

View of Wilshire Boulevard west, showing a double-decker bus, ca.1936

View of Wilshire Boulevard during road work, February 1927

View of the sidwalk of Wilshire Boulevard's 3700 block, looking toward Wester Avenue, [s.d.]

View of an area south of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue looking west, (possibly at Rogers Airport), ca.1920

View of Wilshire Boulevard looking west towards the Wilshire Boulevard Christian Church, February 28, 1927

View of Wilshire Boulevard west, showing an Examiner billboard, ca.1936

Street-level view of Washington Boulevard looking west from Main Street, Los Angeles, 1935

View of Wilshire Boulevard, looking west from Mariposa Street, showing the Blue Cross building, ca.1953

View of Wilshire Boulevard, east of Normandie Avenue, looking east toward downtown, showing the Brown Derby restaurant, April 1947

View of the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Figueroa Street after the improvement of Wilshire, December 6, 1934

View of the Wilshire Boulevard causeway at MacArthur (Westlake) Park, looking east from Park View Street, December 1934

Exterior view of the residence of N. E. Rice on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1900-1909

View of Bernard Street in Los Angeles, 1920-1929

View of Wilshire Boulevard, looking west from a point fifty feed east of Bixel Street, March 2, 1931

Similar tones

View images with similar tones