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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Second Street looking west from Main Street in Los Angeles, ca.1909-1910
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View of Second Street looking west from Main Street in Los Angeles, ca.1909-1910
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Photograph of a view of Second Street looking west from Main Street in Los Angeles, ca.1909-1910. Second Street is at center and heads away from the viewer before disappearing into the distance. There are two sets of streetcar tracks running down the middle of the street and two streetcars are visible on the tracks at left. The sidewalks that border the road are crowded with pedestrians, and several horse-drawn wagons are visible. There are large buildings on both sides of the street, including the massive Higgins building at left that appears to be under construction. Legible signs include, from left to right, "Paint Store", "Hi-Namel Interior Varnish", "Varnish Brushes Stain Butcher's Johnson's Old English Floor Wax", "Elevators in this building", "[?]llewellyn Iron Works Not in the Trust", "A. Barman Contractor", "McIntyre", "Heath Coming", "Reservation Jas. O. Sword", "Santa Fe Station", "Tobacco", "Trust Building", "W. L. Douglas", "Painless Dentists", and "The National Bank". The large structure under construction is the Higgins Building; just next to it, the Wilcox Building cam be seen. Directly west of the Wilcox, across Spring Street, the Hollenbeck Hotel is partly visible. Opposite the Higgins Building, across the Second Street, the Newell Block (with the W. L. Douglas sign) can be seen. West of the Newell, the Los Angeles Trust Company Building is partly visible. "Peeking out" from behind the Trust Building is the Bryson-Bonebrake Building.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Second Street looking west from Main Street in Los Angeles, ca.1909-1910
Subject
buildings
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- 2nd Street
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf),
Stores, Retail
(lcsh),
Street-railroads
(lcsh),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
2nd Street & Main Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1909/1910
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 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
1909/1910
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m493
Identifier
14080 (
accession number
), CHS-14080 (
call number
), CHS-14080 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-5587 (
legacy record id
), chs-m493 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-491 (
legacy record id
), 1-6-148 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
), A645 (
unidentified no.
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
5587
Unique identifier
UC119531
Legacy Identifier
CHS-14080.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.9 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
48.0 cm × 34.5 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
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