California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of the Ville de Paris (Dyas) dry good and sporting goods store being built on the southeast corner of Seventh Street and Olive Street, 1920-1930

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View of the Ville de Paris (Dyas) dry good and sporting goods store being built on the southeast corner of Seventh Street and Olive Street, 1920-1930

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Photograph of a view of the Ville de Paris (Dyas) dry good and sporting goods store being built on the southeast corner of Seventh Street and Olive Street, 1920-1930. The six-story department store is at center and has wooden scaffolding around its perimeter. The building itself is made of brick. There is no glass in the windows. A covered walkway runs along the base of the buildings, and several large wagons and trucks are parked on the street at left. Several high-rise apartment or office buildings can be seen in the background at left.

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Title View of the Ville de Paris (Dyas) dry good and sporting goods store being built on the southeast corner of Seventh Street and Olive Street, 1920-1930

Subject Building (lcsh), buildings (adlf), buildings (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Streets -- 7th Street (2 of 2) (file heading), Stores, Retail (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 7th Street & Olive Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1920/1930

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 1920/1930

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-m829

Identifier 31332 (accession number), CHS-31332 (call number), CHS-31332 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8258 (legacy record id), chs-m829 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-830 (legacy record id), 1-7-35 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8258

Unique identifier UC124873

Legacy Identifier CHS-31332.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.1 in × 16.3 in at 300dpi
51.2 cm × 41.4 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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