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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Spring Street and Main Street looking north from Ninth Street, ca.1915
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View of Spring Street and Main Street looking north from Ninth Street, ca.1915
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Description
Photograph of a view of Spring Street and Main Street looking north from Ninth Street, ca.1915. Los Angeles. Streetcars and horse-drawn carriages make their way along the two paved streets that stand to either side of the city block pictured at center. Two other city blocks full of high rise buildings stand to the far left and right, on the other sides of the streets. A two-story Victorian-style boarding house stands in the center foreground, spires extending from its corners. Farther back in the distance, the scaffolding is visible where a new high rise is being built. Advertising signs are affixed to the sides of nearly all of the other buildings.; Legible signs from left to right include: "Newmark's Cabinet / The 8¢ Cigar", "Jose Vila", "Don Remo", "J.W. Hellmann / Hardware Plumbing Goods Refrigerator Water and Gas Pipe", "Bronson Desk Co.", "Lilyan Hoys Building", "Buy it By the Box / Wrigley's Spearmint Pepsin Gum / The Flavor Lasts", "Coca-Cola", "Central Bldg.", "Grand Pacific Hotel", "Owl Cigar 5¢", "Eastern Outfitting Company / Adjoining Pacific Electric Building / Furniture Carpets Draperies / Houses Furnished Complete", "The Great Credit [...]", "Colgan-Henderson Furniture Co.", and "Signs".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Spring Street and Main Street looking north from Ninth Street, ca.1915
Subject
cities
(adlf),
Los Angeles -- General -- Drawings
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf),
Views
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Main Street
(roadway),
Ninth Street
(roadway),
Spring Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1910/1920
Type
images
Format
1 photographs : photonegative, b&w.
(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
1910/1920
Creator
Bailey
(photographer)
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-m18026
Identifier
7797 (
accession number
), CHS-7797 (
call number
), CHS-7797 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-18057 (
legacy record id
), chs-m18026 (
legacy record id
), 1-9-117 (
microfiche number
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
18057
Unique identifier
UC113618
Legacy Identifier
CHS-7797.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.9 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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