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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Hill Street looking from Fourth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1928-1930
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View of Hill Street looking from Fourth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1928-1930
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Description
Photograph of a view of Hill Street looking from Fourth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1928-1930. 11-story and smaller highrise buildings line the street to either side, advertising commercial products and services out of shopfronts at their bases, or on their sides. Automobiles, pedestrians and cable-cars navigate the street at center.; Legible signs include from left to right: "[...]lphia Hotel", "[D]rink Coca-Cola", "Tokyo Chop Suey", "[...] Clark [...]Rooms [...]ate Baths", "Absolutely Fireproof", "Thomas[...] Restaurant / All Women [...]", "Famous Coffee Shop for Ladies and Gents / Steaks and Chops", "Law Offices Joseph Scott", "Dr. C.P. Kalionzes", "D.C. Roberts", "Kodak Finishing", "Drugs", "Turkish Baths", "People's National Bank", "Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing", "Shoe Repairing", "Houck's Farm Creamery", "Subway Terminal", "Terminal Lunch Ro[om]", "Your Most Convenient Bank", "Shine L.A.", "Seats 15¢ Big Double Bill", and "State Life of Indiana".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Hill Street looking from Fourth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1928-1930
Subject
buildings
(adlf),
cities
(adlf),
Hotels, taverns, etc.
(lcsh),
Retail trade
(lcsh),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Fourth Street
(roadway),
Hill Street
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1928/1930
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 26 x 21 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
1928/1930
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-m17904
Identifier
6969 (
accession number
), CHS-6969 (
call number
), CHS-6969 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-17886 (
legacy record id
), chs-m17904 (
legacy record id
), 1-5-64 (
microfiche number
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
17886
Unique identifier
UC113409
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6969.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
14.0 in × 17.7 in at 300dpi
35.5 cm × 45.1 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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