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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, Los Angeles, [s.d.]
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View of the Angels Flight, Los Angeles, [s.d.]

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Photograph of a view of the Angels Flight, showing both cars and the tower, Los Angeles, [s.d.]. Two sets of rails allow the cars to pass each other at the center of the trip. At the top of the hill is a three-story tower. In front of the tower is an advertisement for a café showing the letters "café" and a hand pointing to the right in lights. To the left of Angels Flight is the Elks Hall, a seven-story square building. On its rooftop is a pergola-like structure that surrounds the perimeter of the roof.; Legible signs include: on a sign above the underpass "Notice, $100.00 fine for riding, driving or propelling any vehicle faster than eight (8) miles per hour in this tunnel, see ordinance 15775", "G[...]en Villa, furnished rooms", "hotel", "café". 
Asset Metadata
Title View of the Angels Flight, Los Angeles, [s.d.] 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Subject Building  (lcsh), Elks Hall  (subject), General Subjects -- Transportation -- Street Railways  (subject), Transportation  (lcsh), Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- Incline  (file heading), transportation features  (adlf) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place California (states), Figueroa Street (roadway), Hill Street (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Third Street (roadway), USA (countries) 
Type images
Format 4 photographs : glass photonegative, transparencies, photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm., 13 x 10 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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) 
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-m8474 
Identifier 5610 (accession number), CHS-5610 (call number), CHS-5610 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8790 (legacy record id), chs-m8474 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8609 (legacy record id), USC (project) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 8790 
Unique identifier UC138393 
Legacy Identifier CHS-5610.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 14.5 in × 16.7 in at 300dpi
37.0 cm × 42.4 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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