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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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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 
Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer) 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 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) 
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) 
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-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 
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