California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

View of Hollywood looking northeast from Santa Monica Boulevard on Highland Avenue, ca.1929

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View of Hollywood looking northeast from Santa Monica Boulevard on Highland Avenue, ca.1929

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Photograph of a panoramic view of Hollywood looking northeast from Santa Monica Boulevard on Highland Avenue, ca.1929. One- and two-story industrial buildings fill the blocks, spreading out towards the mountains that cut in from the left in the background. Automobiles drive and park along the streets. Small billboards are erected in several of the buildings' lots. In the right foreground, a back lot is filled with debris and automobiles.; Legible signs include: "Arrow Screen Company", "Missouri Dye House Expert Dry Cleaners / Established 1906 Albert A. Armstrong Prop.", "Phones GRanite 9602-9303-9501 1", "Hollywood Branch Los Angeles Creamery Co. / Milk Cream [...] Butter Buttermilk", "The Union Ice Company", "Richfield Gasoline", "J. Ross Castendyck, Builder", "Samuel C. Shine General Trucking", "Printing", "Market", "Bennett Film Laboratories", and "[...] Props. Co. [...] Everything".

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Title View of Hollywood looking northeast from Santa Monica Boulevard on Highland Avenue, ca.1929

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1924/1934

Subject cities (adlf), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Hollywood (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1924/1934

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-m17914

Identifier 7018 (accession number), CHS-7018 (call number), CHS-7018 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17896 (legacy record id), chs-m17914 (legacy record id), 1-31-163 (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17896

Unique identifier UC113422

Legacy Identifier CHS-7018.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

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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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