California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Eastward view of Twentieth Street from Redondo Boulevard showing road work, 1927

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Eastward view of Twentieth Street from Redondo Boulevard showing road work, 1927

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Photograph of an eastward view of Twentieth Street from Redondo Boulevard showing road work, 1927. The road runs from the foreground to the background at center and is newly paved at left. The right side of the road is unpaved. A brush-covered hill runs parallel to the road at left, and several utility poles can be seen on the hill. In the background at center, many low, one-story buildings can be seen on both sides of the road.

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Title Eastward view of Twentieth Street from Redondo Boulevard showing road work, 1927

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1927-05-14

Subject Los Angeles -- Streets -- 20th Street (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets -- Maintenance and repair (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 20th Street & Redondo Boulevard (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1927-05-14

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 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)

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-m846

Identifier 42052 (accession number), CHS-42052 (call number), CHS-42052 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8274 (legacy record id), chs-m846 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-847 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8274

Unique identifier UC124930

Legacy Identifier CHS-42052.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.9 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
35.4 cm × 33.9 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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