California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Unidentified street in Wilmington illustrating the raised buildings which assisted in keeping the buildings from being flooded by the backwater, ca.1925

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Unidentified street in Wilmington illustrating the raised buildings which assisted in keeping the buildings from being flooded by the backwater, ca.1925

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Photograph of an unidentified street in Wilmington illustrating the raised buildings which assisted in keeping the buildings from being flooded by the backwater, ca.1925. The street is dirt in composition, however power poles are evident. Street lights are evident. Horses and carriges are in the street. A store with an awning labelled "Wilmington Pharmacy" and another labelled Wilmington Pioneer appear on the left side of the street. A store with the awning proclaiming "Drugs" is prominent on the left side of the street, but further down. On the right side of the street, the Hay, Hardwick and Brown, Agents for the Banning Tract Choice Acreage building can be clearly seen. Horse and buggies, electric power lines, and the dirt street with mounds of sediment piled up are visible. It may be, from the appearances in the photo, that the time period is at the time when the stores are being brought down to street level and the conversion is in process. Sidewalks appear to be in the progress of being put into place.

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Title Unidentified street in Wilmington illustrating the raised buildings which assisted in keeping the buildings from being flooded by the backwater, ca.1925

Subject Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- Miscellaneous (file heading), Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- Streets (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Wilmington (city or populated place)

Temporal Subject 1925

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (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 1925

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-m986

Identifier 11827 (accession number), CHS-11827 (call number), CHS-11827 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8894 (legacy record id), chs-m986 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-992 (legacy record id), 1-50-65 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8894

Unique identifier UC139105

Legacy Identifier CHS-11827.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.0 in × 11.9 in at 300dpi
48.2 cm × 30.4 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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