California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

City water reservoir in Plaza, Los Angeles, befrore 1871

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City water reservoir in Plaza, Los Angeles, befrore 1871

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Photograph of the city water reservoir in Plaza, Los Angeles, before 1871. The reservoir building stands at center, featuring arched window filled-in with brick. A wooden frame has been built on top of the building's brick, through which a pole standing at the center and what appear to be wires can be seen attached to the left and right sides of the frame's inside walls. A post-and-rail fence can be seen behind this, beyond which a second, long utility house stands. What appear to be sheds and a factory building of approximately four stories are visible furthest back. Mountains can be seen in the distance.; "Father Adam says, 'Where Buena Vista Street is now open, north on the hill, stood a chapel from 1784 to 1812; where a Franciscan friar from San Gabriel said Mass every Sunday and holidays.' The fence about the Plaza was built by the owners of the reservoir at extreme right of the picture. Later they planted the trees and otherwise improved it." -- unknown author. The reservoir was demolished in 1871.

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Title City water reservoir in Plaza, Los Angeles, befrore 1871

Subject Churches, Catholic (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Public buildings -- General (file heading), Plaza Church (subject), Plazas (lcsh), reservoirs (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Main Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1871

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, 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 1871

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17890

Identifier 6907 (accession number), CHS-6907 (call number), CHS-6907 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17873 (legacy record id), chs-m17890 (legacy record id), 1-14-22 (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17873

Unique identifier UC113329

Legacy Identifier CHS-6907.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.0 in × 17.2 in at 300dpi
35.5 cm × 43.7 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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