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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Concrete gutter construction west of Hoover Street on Adams, ca.1920-1930
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Concrete gutter construction west of Hoover Street on Adams, ca.1920-1930
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Description
Photograph of concrete gutter construction west of Hoover Street on Adams, ca.1920-1930. In the foreground at right, a paved road can be seen extending into the background. At left, a smooth section of drying cement can be seen. Long boards extend over sections of the cement slabs. In the background at center, a large group of men stand near a section of the road along the curb. All the men wear hats, and most of them hold brooms or bull floats in their hands. A lone bull float sits in the middle of the street in the foreground. Additional men can be standing beneath trees along the sidewalk at left. Tot he far right, a cement mixer can be seen.
Asset Metadata
Title
Concrete gutter construction west of Hoover Street on Adams, ca.1920-1930
Subject
Building
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Adams Boulevard
(file heading),
Los Angeles City -- Public Works -- Construction scenes
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Adams Boulevard & Hoover Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1920/1930
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
1920/1930
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m4103
Identifier
43980 (
accession number
), CHS-43980 (
call number
), CHS-43980 (
filename
), isla id: S-4751 (
identifying number
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-5446 (
legacy record id
), chs-m4103 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-4193 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
5446
Unique identifier
UC119607
Legacy Identifier
CHS-43980.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.2 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
46.4 cm × 33.7 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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