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

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)

Date Created 1920/1929

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-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

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

View of Wilshire Boulevard during road work, February 1927

View of Wilshire Boulevard looking west from Bonnie Brae Street before widening, March 2, 1931

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

View of Wilshire Boulevard looking west from Figueroa Street, after widening and paving, 1934

View of Wilshire Boulevard, looking east from Mariposa Avenue, 1949

View of Wilshire Boulevard west from Figueroa Street before widening and paving, 1931

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

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

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

View of Wilshire Boulevard, looking east from a point 150 feet west of Figueroa Street, 1931

View of post-widened Wilshire Boulevard looking east fifty feet from Kip Street, 1934

Exterior view of the First United Methodist Church on Wilshire, near Hancock Park, 1920-1929

View of the Wilshire Boulevard overpass at Westlake Park (later MacArthur Park), 1930-1939

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

View of the 5400 block of Wilshire Boulevard showing a tall building and several automobiles, ca.1950-1959

View of Wilshire Boulevard looking east from Western Avenue in Los Angeles, ca.1930-1939

Birdseye view of Wilshire Boulevard, looking west at night, March 28, 1928

View of post-widened Wilshire Boulevard looking west from a point fifty feet east of Bixel Street, 1934

West Adams Boulevard, near Hoover, ca.1902

Similar tones

View images with similar tones