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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Exterior view of the Los Angeles Times building on the northeast corner of West First Street and Fort Street (later Broadway), ca.1886
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Exterior view of the Los Angeles Times building on the northeast corner of West First Street and Fort Street (later Broadway), ca.1886
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Description
Photograph of the exterior view of the Los Angeles Times building on the northeast corner of West First Street and Fort Street (later Broadway), ca.1886. The streets are unpaved. Railway tracks line the street at right. Several horse-drawn carriages are parked along the street near the corner of the building. The building is about three-stories tall and features stone masonry brick walls and arched windows.; Legible signs include: "Earl fruit", "E.E. Crandall & Co., 133-135, stoves and ranges", "Martels & Grates, tiling and brass goods", "real estate".
Asset Metadata
Title
Exterior view of the Los Angeles Times building on the northeast corner of West First Street and Fort Street (later Broadway), ca.1886
Subject
buildings
(lcsh),
buildings
(adlf),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- General -- L.A. Times
(file heading),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- General #1
(file heading),
Los Angeles Times
(subject),
Newspapers
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Broadway & First Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1886
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
1886
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-m967
Identifier
6109 (
accession number
), CHS-6109 (
call number
), CHS-6109 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-8875 (
legacy record id
), chs-m967 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-970 (
legacy record id
), 1-2-78 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
8875
Unique identifier
UC139068
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6109.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 35.1 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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