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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of the intersection of N Street and o Street looking east from Broad Street in Wilmington prior to improvements, 1933
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View of the intersection of N Street and o Street looking east from Broad Street in Wilmington prior to improvements, 1933
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Description
Photograph of a view of the intersection of N Street and o Street looking east from Broad Street in Wilmington prior to improvements, 1933. In the foreground, a partially-paved road is pictured, half overblown with dust. In the background, a narrow dirt road runs the length of a section of barbed-wire fence. Houses can be seen in the background.; Photo is labelled to depict N Street and O Street in Wilmington looking east from Broad Street before improvements have been made, 29 November 1933. Electric power lines show, street curbs with drains show but the road is obviously of dirt construction.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of the intersection of N Street and o Street looking east from Broad Street in Wilmington prior to improvements, 1933
Subject
Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- Miscellaneous
(file heading),
Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- Streets
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets -- Maintenance and repair
(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
1933-11-29
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 16 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
1933-11-29
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-m987
Identifier
44550 (
accession number
), CHS-44550 (
call number
), CHS-44550 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-8895 (
legacy record id
), chs-m987 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-994 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
8895
Unique identifier
UC139051
Legacy Identifier
CHS-44550.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.3 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
46.5 cm × 34.7 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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