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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Birdseye view of Los Angeles, looking north, ca.1900-1909
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Birdseye view of Los Angeles, looking north, ca.1900-1909
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Description
Photograph of a birdseye view of Los Angeles, looking north, ca.1900-1909. At left, street cars and horse-drawn carriages make their way up and down a wide dirt street that extends into the distance. At center, the roofs of highrise buildings can be seen, sprawling towards the mountains in the background, smokestacks visible at right.; Legible signs from left to right include: "[...]Rosslyn", "Wells Fargo & Company", "Barker Bros. Furniture [...]", "The Union Lithograph Company. [...]. Los Angeles Lithographic Company, 'Lithographers'. Printers : Binders. [...]", "Southern [...] Wine Company", and "Hotel Leonide".
Asset Metadata
Title
Birdseye view of Los Angeles, looking north, ca.1900-1909
Subject
cities
(adlf),
Los Angeles -- General views
(file heading),
Views
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1900/1909
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 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
1900/1909
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-m2686
Identifier
41548 (
accession number
), CHS-41548 (
call number
), CHS-41548 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-3589 (
legacy record id
), chs-m2686 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-2750 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
3589
Unique identifier
UC120577
Legacy Identifier
CHS-41548.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.6 in × 16.7 in at 300dpi
52.3 cm × 42.4 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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