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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Downtown Los Angeles looking northeast from Court House Hill, ca.1874
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Downtown Los Angeles looking northeast from Court House Hill, ca.1874
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Description
Photograph of downtown Los Angeles -- the first Plaza area -- looking northeast from Court House Hill, ca.1874. View from the Court House towards the First Congregational Church and the Kimball Mansion (built 1874, where Helen Hunt Jackson was entertained while in the city, later the residence of Justice John Trafford, adobe wall removed 1874). In the foreground is of a barn or stables and carts.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography. See also CHS-2854 .
Asset Metadata
Title
Downtown Los Angeles looking northeast from Court House Hill, ca.1874
Subject
Architecture, Domestic
(lcsh),
buildings
(adlf),
Churches
(lcsh),
Dwellings
(lcsh),
First Congregational Church
(subject),
Kimball
(subject),
LA (LA) -- Churches
(subject),
Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Churches -- Congregational
(file heading),
Los Angeles -- Churches -- Congregational
(file heading),
Los Angeles -- Sonora Town -- General
(file heading),
Plazas
(lcsh),
Residences (Kimball)
(subject),
Trafford, John
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Downtown Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
First Congregational Church
(manmade features),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Sonora Town
(city or populated place),
USA
(countries)
Geocoordinate
34.01361,-118.28401 (
point
), 34.02915,-118.24959 (
point
), 34.0525,-118.27294 (
point
), 34.05371,-118.22654 (
point
)
Temporal Subject
1874
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 20 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
1874
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
(photographer)
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-m894
Identifier
351 (
accession number
), CHS-351 (
call number
), CHS-351 (
filename
), isla id: S-4526 (
identifying number
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-8321 (
legacy record id
), chs-m894 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-5018 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-5033 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-895 (
legacy record id
), 1-15-14 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
8321
Unique identifier
UC124753
Legacy Identifier
CHS-351.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.7 in × 22.0 in at 300dpi
45.1 cm × 55.9 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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