California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Coulter's Department Store, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, ca.1939

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Coulter's Department Store, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, ca.1939

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Photograph of an exterior view of Coulter's Department Store on Wilshire Boulevard, in the Miracle Mile, showing automobiles, ca.1939. Built in 1938 and located at the SE corner of Wilshire and Hauser boulevards, the six-story Art Deco building of Coulter's Department Store stands in the center of the image. Awnings hang over its first floor display windows, while stripes of glass blocks cross the building at each of the middle four floors. A paved street runs in front of the building, from the foreground to the right background, lined on both sides by parked automobiles. Other automobiles drive along the right side of the street, toward the background. The Spanish Revival building bearing signs which read "Citizens National Trust & Savings Bank" and "Bonner Campbell Insurance" sits behind Coulter's; a highrise that reads "Arthur Murray" is visible in the distance.

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Title Coulter's Department Store, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, ca.1939

Subject buildings (adlf), Coulter's Department Store (subject), Department stores (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Stores -- Coulter's (file heading), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Stores (1 of 2) (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Citizen's National Trust and Savings Bank (manmade features), Coulter's Department Store (manmade features), Hauser Boulevard (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Miracle Mile (city or populated place), USA (countries), Wilshire Boulevard (roadway)

Temporal Subject 1939

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1939

Creator Clements, Stiles O. (architect)

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-m966

Identifier 31091 (accession number), CHS-31091 (call number), CHS-31091 (filename), isla id: S-4593 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8874 (legacy record id), chs-m966 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-969 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8874

Unique identifier UC139045

Legacy Identifier CHS-31091.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.1 in × 14.1 in at 300dpi
46.0 cm × 35.8 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

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

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