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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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First Street and Hill Street before the tunnel was cut through, November 1908
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First Street and Hill Street before the tunnel was cut through, November 1908

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Photograph of First Street and Hill Street before the tunnel was cut through, November 1908. The apparently unpaved road, lined by telephone poles, curves to the right down towards the town, in which a collection of houses can be seen progressing up a hill. On a hill between the partially visible porch of a house at left and the road is a sign that reads "Highland Villa / Furnished Rooms / $2.00 per Week & Up". Rail tracks are visibly embedded in the road, and a switch track light can be seen at left. Tree cover obscures most of the sky. 
Asset Metadata
Title First Street and Hill Street before the tunnel was cut through, November 1908 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1908-11 
Subject roadways  (adlf), Transportation  (lcsh) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place California (states), First Street & Hill Street (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1908-11 
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) 
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-m17837 
Identifier 2911 (accession number), CHS-2911 (call number), CHS-6347 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17821 (legacy record id), chs-m17837 (legacy record id), USC (project), 1-5-53 (unidentified no.) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 17821 
Unique identifier UC113230 
Legacy Identifier CHS-6347.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.3 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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