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Title
Exterior view of the Stimson residence, 1890
Creator
C.C. Pierce & Co
Title Insurance and Trust Company
Date Created and/or Issued
1890
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph (streetscape, horizontal photography) of exterior (completely masonry construction) front view of the Stimson mansion, west side of Figueroa Street on Chester Place, Los Angeles, 1890. The manicured lawn has trees and other plants arranged at pleasing intervals. Another large dwelling is visible in the background. The home was built for the retired Chicago lumberman Thomas Douglas Stimson.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : albumen photoprint, glass photonegative, b&w
13 x 18 cm., 12 x 20 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m1714
USC-1-1-1-1764 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-87
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1714
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-87.jpg
Subject
Architecture, Domestic
Los Angeles--Architecture--Domestic--Chester Place
Stimson
Residential sites
Time Period
1890
Place
-118.27573,34.02833
-118.2747,34.0269
-118.27583,34.02541
-118.27699,34.02694
California
Los Angeles
USA
West Figueroa Street
Chester Place
Source
87 [Accession number]
CHS-87 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
isla id: S-4385 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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