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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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"The Miracle Mile" of Wilshire Boulevard looking east from Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1929
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"The Miracle Mile" of Wilshire Boulevard looking east from Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1929
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Description
Photograph of "The Miracle Mile" of Wilshire Boulevard looking east from Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1929. The photograph shows a number of automobiles parked along Wilshire Boulevard which is lined by decorative trees and empty lots to the right and oil derricks with a few small commercial shop fronts to the left. Billboards and signs read "Wilshire Blvd. Frontage / High Class Income Property in this Vicinity / Hugh Evans & Co. Inc.", "Café La Boheme / Dining & Dancing", "Yellow Cab Station", "Beverly Blvd. Frontage / Third St. Frontage", "Hugh Evans & Co. Wilshire-Fairfax Tract Office", "Newmark's Mountain Grown Coffee used Exclusively by the Ambassador Hotel", and "Lassco [...] Hawaii".
Asset Metadata
Title
"The Miracle Mile" of Wilshire Boulevard looking east from Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1929
Subject
Los Angeles -- Streets -- Wilshire Boulevard (2 of 3)
(file heading),
Oil wells
(lcsh),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Fairfax Avenue
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries),
Wilshire Boulevard
(roadway)
Temporal Subject
1929
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 21 x 26 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
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m428
Identifier
7136 (
accession number
), CHS-7136 (
call number
), CHS-7136 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-5285 (
legacy record id
), chs-m428 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-425 (
legacy record id
), 1-12-14 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
5285
Unique identifier
UC119610
Legacy Identifier
CHS-7136.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.3 in × 13.9 in at 300dpi
44.0 cm × 35.3 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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