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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Birdseye view of Eleventh Street looking west from Hill Street, Los Angeles, 1931
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Birdseye view of Eleventh Street looking west from Hill Street, Los Angeles, 1931
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Photograph of a birdseye view of Eleventh Street looking west from Hill Street, Los Angeles, 1931. Automobiles make their way through the city on the paved streets below the high rise buildings that flank them to either side. In the foreground, a bus tries to make its way across 11th from the intersection. In the lower left foreground, an arabesque spire can be seen, highly decorated. Advertisement signs are affixed to buildings everywhere. The Hydril building can be seen in the distance to the right. Mountains are visible in the background.; Legible signs include: "Union Oil Dag / Union Gasoline / Union Ethyl / Complete Lubrication", "The Store Where Bargains Reign", "Texaco", "L.A. Wheel and [...] Specialists", "Hotel Plesanton 1120 So. Grand Ave", "Oakland and Pontiac Motor Cars", "Firestone", "Dorothy Apts.", "Wagner Woodruf Building / Lighting Fixtures", "Home of the Western Auto Supply Co. 1100 So. Grand Ave", "Willys Distributors Inc. / Willys Knight Automobiles and Trucks / Willys Sixes Eights", "Earl V. Lewis Co. Kodak Finishing Dept. / Leave Orders Here / Will A. Kistler Company / Printers Lithographers Engravers / 215 W. Eleventh St. / Westmore 8636", "Hardy Park Economy", "Three Delicious Aunt Jemima Pancakes for 1 Cent!", "Le-Co. Flag Rental Service", "Belasco Theatre / Los Angeles Finest Legitimate Play House", "American Mortgage Company", "Curtiss Baby Ruth Candy and Gum", "Red Cap Candy", "Old Gold", "La Vida", "Winslow B. Felix Commercial Car Dept.", and "The Wade Apartments".
Asset Metadata
Title
Birdseye view of Eleventh Street looking west from Hill Street, Los Angeles, 1931
Subject
cities
(adlf),
Los Angeles -- General views (1920-1958)
(file heading),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- 11th Street
(file heading),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
11th Street & Hill Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1931
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)
Date Created
1931
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-m844
Identifier
7623 (
accession number
), CHS-7623 (
call number
), CHS-7623 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-8272 (
legacy record id
), chs-m844 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-845 (
legacy record id
), 1-13-60 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
8272
Unique identifier
UC125301
Legacy Identifier
CHS-7623.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.5 in × 14.5 in at 300dpi
47.1 cm × 37.0 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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