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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Exterior view of the Title Insurance Building, located at 433 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, 1940-1949
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Exterior view of the Title Insurance Building, located at 433 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, 1940-1949
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Description
Photograph of an exterior view of the Title Insurance Building, located at 433 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, 1940-1949. The large, light colored building is at center. It is a rectangular building with at least thirteen stories. Two shorter wings have about four stories. A massive American flag flies from a pole on top of the building, and another American flag flies along with a California flag over the entryway. Several pedestrians are visible walking on the sidewalk in front of the building, and two cars and a truck are parked along the curb. The Guaranteed Typewriter Company and a Christian Science Reading Room are located on the first floor.
Asset Metadata
Title
Exterior view of the Title Insurance Building, located at 433 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, 1940-1949
Subject
buildings
(adlf),
buildings
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- General -- Title Insurance Building
(file heading),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- General #2
(file heading),
Title Insurance Corporation
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
433 South Spring Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1940/1949
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 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
1940/1949
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-m963
Identifier
14337 (
accession number
), CHS-14337 (
call number
), CHS-14337 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-8871 (
legacy record id
), chs-m963 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-966 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
8871
Unique identifier
UC138996
Legacy Identifier
CHS-14337.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
15.8 in × 19.5 in at 300dpi
40.3 cm × 49.7 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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