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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of downtown Los Angeles, looking north on Main Street, ca.1906
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View of downtown Los Angeles, looking north on Main Street, ca.1906
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Description
Photograph of a view of downtown Los Angeles, looking north on Main Street, ca.1906. Main Street is thriving with commercial buildings. Prominent buildings include the Lexington Hotel (left), the Hotel Rosslyn (right of Lexington Hotel), and the Barker Bros. Building (right of Hotel Rosslyn). Many pedestrians can be seen walking down the sidewalks or crossing the street. Many streetcars can be seen carrying their passengers down the street. Along the sidewalks are many parked horse-drawn carriages and early-model cars.; Legible signs include: "express", "[...]20753 C 918, 4811", "Lexington Hotel", "Hotel Rosslyn", "school ho[ouse]", "[...]rds", "[...]ool", "free hot lunch", "[...]an, [...]afe, [...] and [...]ens, [...]al, [...]ian, [...]5 cents", "[Barker Bro]s., [furnitur]e, [carpet]s, [draperie]s.", "San Juan", "opening grand Midwinter Carnival and Oriental, 'Venice', Jan 14th 1906", "Emp[orium]", "Slauson Junction", "Ascot Park district", "224", "Hotel [...]lgaza[...]", "Eureka Hotel", "Arcade Depot".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of downtown Los Angeles, looking north on Main Street, ca.1906
Subject
cities
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
5th Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Main Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1906
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1906
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-m8109
Identifier
5088 (
accession number
), CHS-5088 (
call number
), CHS-5088 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-8435 (
legacy record id
), chs-m8109 (
legacy record id
), 1-6-17 (
microfiche number
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
8435
Unique identifier
UC125941
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5088.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
13.5 in × 16.6 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 42.3 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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