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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of the Angels Flight with the cars, the tower and surrounding buildings, Third Street and Hill Street, Los Angeles, ca.1910
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View of the Angels Flight with the cars, the tower and surrounding buildings, Third Street and Hill Street, Los Angeles, ca.1910

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Photograph of a view of the Angels Flight with the cars (left of the tower), the tower (center) and surrounding buildings, including the William Ferguson building, on the corner of Third Street and Hill Street, Los Angeles, ca.1910. The surrounding buildings flank the Angels Flight transportation facility. A set of stairs (to the right of the railway car) allows people to walk up to the top of the hill instead of taking the incline railway car. A tall tower, with a platform and a booth, stands at the top of the flight. Picture file card reads: "The architect of the Ferguson building was George H. Wyman, who also designed the Bradbury building."; Legible signs include: "ladies tailor", "301, Marsden Drug Co., drugs, cigars", "Common Sense Beauty Shop", "D. Curl C.S., Christian science [...]", "Dr. W.K. Chambers, dentist", "Champ Clark for president", "The Hulburt apartments", "Angels Flight, B.P.O.E.", "S. Hill St.", "Notice $100 fine, for riding, driving or propelling any vehicle faster than 8 miles per hour in this tunnel, see ordinance no. 15775", "take other walk, going west", "Vegetarian Cafeteria", "furnished rooms", "Young Woman's [...] Christian Association building", "power off", "409, The Glen Vil[la], furnished rooms", "Hotel Hillcrest", "Rose, McCoy", "sanitarium", "257, The Guiles [furnish]ed rooms, week or month, prices reasonable".; "The original Angels Flight, originally known as the 'Los Angeles Incline Railway,' was built in 1901 by Col. J.W. Eddy to connect the original Downtown shopping district below with the posh residential district of Bunker Hill, with its Victorian frame houses. Then located at the corner of 3rd and Hill streets, Angels Flight was known (and is still known) as 'The World's Shortest Railway,' with its two counterbalanced passenger cars, Sinai and Olivet ascending up and descending down the hill for all Angelenos, all for a nickel. During the post-World War II era, the growth of Los Angeles boomed, and the once-upper-class area of Bunker Hill had turned into a slum. The Victorian homes were gradually razed, and those that remained were converted to boarding houses. Bunker Hill became an urban renewal project under the California Redevelopment Act, and in the late 1960s, everything was demolished to make room for office buildings and a senior citizen's condominium complex, called the Angelus Plaza. Angels Flight, however, was not demolished but dismantled, by the City, who promised to move and re-build the Los Angeles landmark 'in a couple of years.'" -- unknown author. 
Asset Metadata
Title View of the Angels Flight with the cars, the tower and surrounding buildings, Third Street and Hill Street, Los Angeles, ca.1910 
Creator Wyman, George H. (architect) 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1910 
Subject Building  (lcsh), General Subjects -- Transportation -- Street Railways  (subject), Transportation  (lcsh), Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- Incline  (file heading), transportation features  (adlf), William Ferguson building  (subject) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place California (states), Hill Street (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Third Street (roadway), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1910 
Type images
Format 4 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegatives, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 11 x 13 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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) 
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-m8482 
Identifier 5542 (accession number), CHS-5542 (call number), CHS-5542 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8798 (legacy record id), chs-m8482 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8617 (legacy record id), USC (project) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 8798 
Unique identifier UC138412 
Legacy Identifier CHS-5542.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.6 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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