California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

View of the junction of Main and Spring Streets near Ninth Street, looking south, showing the Joe Toplitzky Company and automobiles, ca.1926

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View of the junction of Main and Spring Streets near Ninth Street, looking south, showing the Joe Toplitzky Company and automobiles, ca.1926

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Photograph of a birdseye view of the junction of Main and Spring Streets near Ninth Street, looking south, showing the Joe Toplitzky Company and automobiles, ca.1926. The paved lanes of Main Street and Spring Street run horizontally through the image, intersecting at an acute angle in the left foreground. Automobiles drive along both streets, while many are also parked along the far street; a bus sits near the intersection of the two streets. Both streets are lined by commercial buildings, with many highrises visible along the rear street and in the background.; Legible signs, from left to right, include: "W.M. Garland Building", "Joe Toplitzky Co", "Auto Park. Inside Parking", "Orpheum Vaudeville", "Radio Shop", "Printing. Rubber Stamps", and "The Los Angeles Morris Plan Company".

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Title View of the junction of Main and Spring Streets near Ninth Street, looking south, showing the Joe Toplitzky Company and automobiles, ca.1926

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), buildings (lcsh), commercial sites (adlf), Joe Toplitzky Company (subject), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Spring Street -- 8th to 9th (file heading), Stores, Retail (lcsh), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Spring Street, Main Street & Ninth Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1926

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 1926

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m810

Identifier 31217 (accession number), CHS-31217 (call number), CHS-31217 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8240 (legacy record id), chs-m810 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-811 (legacy record id), USC (project), 64389 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8240

Unique identifier UC124880

Legacy Identifier CHS-31217.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.7 in × 15.8 in at 300dpi
50.1 cm × 40.3 cm at 300dpi

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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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