California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Panoramic view of downtown Los Angeles from City Hall, ca.1887

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Panoramic view of downtown Los Angeles from City Hall, ca.1887

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Photograph of a panoramic view of downtown Los Angeles from City Hall, ca.1887. Commercial and residential buildings can be seen in the foreground, while mostly residential buildings can be seen towards the background. A circular-shaped building is visible to the right of center. Several horse-drawn wagons are in the street. Undeveloped land is visible in the distance. Legible signs include: "Furniture", "Pharmacy"..., "Occident Stables"..., "Restaurant", "F. Thom[...] Parisian [...] cleaning [...]", "Lodging", "202, The Little Gem Restaurant, 202", "Wines, liquors, cigars", "204, Headquarters Eastern Gasoline and Oils [...], gasoline stoves cleaned & repaired", "Millinery", "Baths", "Kalso [...]", "Storage", "The new Natick [...]", "[...] Fredericksburg Lager [...]", "[...] City Steam Dying and Cleaning Works", "14, Stoves & tinware", "Gibson & Alexander bicycles, tricycles", "Plumbing", "The Model", "18, New York House, 18", "Chicago [...] bottling works", "[...]rama [...] the [...] of Paris", "Bicycle & tricycle ware rooms", "18, New York House, furnished rooms, 18", "Woodbury [...]", "Go to Wineburgh's for the best [...] in [...] shirts and underwear, [...]wear [..]ery, gloves, 209 S. Spring St.", "On the next block below, on the oppos[...], Wineburghs dry goods store [...]lace depot, 209 S. Sping St., trimmings, corsets, [...], special sale every day", "Olmsted & Wales, Panorama book store", "[...] iron metal [...]", "Hotel Fremont", "J.G. McMenomy", "Colton's Auction House", and "Pi[...]".

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Title Panoramic view of downtown Los Angeles from City Hall, ca.1887

Subject cities (adlf), Los Angeles -- General views (1880) (file heading), Theaters (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Spring Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1887

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1887

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2542

Identifier 2089 (accession number), CHS-2089 (call number), CHS-2089 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3456 (legacy record id), chs-m2542 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2604 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3456

Unique identifier UC120582

Legacy Identifier CHS-2089.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.6 in × 16.5 in at 300dpi
52.5 cm × 41.9 cm at 300dpi

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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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