Panoramic view of downtown Los Angeles from 1st Street looking east from Hill Street, 1888-1895

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Title Panoramic view of downtown Los Angeles from 1st Street looking east from Hill Street, 1888-1895

Description Photograph of a panoramic view of downtown Los Angeles from First Street looking east from Hill Street, 1888-1895. The Metropolitan Stables at First Street and Broadway can be seen at center. Residential buildings are in the foreground, while commercial buildings dominate the rest of the scene. Scattered horse-drawn carriages, wagons, pedestrians and a trolley move about on First Street. Utility lines cross the road. Legible signs include: "Metropolitan Stables", "Job print"..., "Printing", "H. Jevne, wholesale & retail grocer", ..."135", "Los Angeles Printing Co.". Banners stretched across the street read: ..."Agricultural Association"..., ..."Festival [...] at [...] House".

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1888/1895

Subject buildings (lcsh), cities (adlf), Dwellings (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- 1st Street (file heading), Streets (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 1st Street at Hill Street (roadways), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1888/1895

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 21 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m488

Identifier 2841 (accession number), CHS-2841 (call number), CHS-2841 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5400 (legacy record id), chs-m488 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-486 (legacy record id), 1-5-22 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5400

Unique identifier UC119441

Legacy Identifier CHS-2841.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.9 in × 14.1 in at 300dpi
48.0 cm × 35.8 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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