California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Wilshire Boulevard looking north from the Carthay Circle Theater, Los Angeles, 1930

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View of Wilshire Boulevard looking north from the Carthay Circle Theater, Los Angeles, 1930

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Photograph of a view of Wilshire Boulevard looking north from the Carthay Circle Theater, Los Angeles, 1930. A streetcar can be seen over the top of a non-residential building, making its way down the boulevard with the houses of the city's residential area visible in the background, along with a stretch of mountains. The signs on the back of the foreground building read "Conservatory" and "Plumbing Service".

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Title View of Wilshire Boulevard looking north from the Carthay Circle Theater, Los Angeles, 1930

Subject Carthay Circle Theater (subject), cities (adlf), Electric railroads (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Wilshire Boulevard (2 of 3) (file heading), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place buildings: Carthay Circle Theater (geographic subject), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Wilshire Boulevard (roadway)

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 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)

Date Created 1930

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-m452

Identifier 7197 (accession number), CHS-7197 (call number), CHS-7197 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5294 (legacy record id), chs-m452 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-449 (legacy record id), 1-12-18 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5294

Unique identifier UC119657

Legacy Identifier CHS-7197.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.7 in × 10.5 in at 300dpi
34.8 cm × 26.8 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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