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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Flooded intersection of Seventh Street and Grand Avenue, 1910
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Flooded intersection of Seventh Street and Grand Avenue, 1910
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Description
Photograph of the flooded intersection of Seventh Street and Grand Avenue, 1910. The intersection is at center and is completely submerged beneath moving water. A streetcar is at left and is covered in water up to its axels. Several people can be seen sitting on the car or on nearby buildings. At left are several clapboard buildings, while at right a concrete building with a cylindrical tower can be seen. This was later the location of Robinson's Department Store.
Asset Metadata
Title
Flooded intersection of Seventh Street and Grand Avenue, 1910
Subject
buildings
(adlf),
Floods
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- Streets -- 7th Street (2 of 2)
(file heading),
Rain and rainfall
(lcsh),
Street-railroads
(lcsh),
Streets
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
7th Street & Grand Avenue
(roadway),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1910
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
photographic prints
(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
1910
Contributor
Downtown Business Men's Association
(donor)
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-m819
Identifier
31333 (
accession number
), CHS-31333 (
call number
), CHS-31333 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-8249 (
legacy record id
), chs-m819 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-820 (
legacy record id
), 1-7-36 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
8249
Unique identifier
UC124863
Legacy Identifier
CHS-31333.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.2 in × 16.3 in at 300dpi
51.5 cm × 41.6 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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