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Description:: Encampment of families with parked cars, tents and shacks in an area of open land. A chalk board in front of one tent reads: "patented lands in tracts from..." and appears to list acreage and prices. A sign next to the tent reads: "John R. Doran, lots, leases, claims." Behind the tent is a shack with a sign that reads: Coca C[ola] sold...and a there is a large truck with a Coca Cola sigh painted on it in the background
Date:: [circa 1910-1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Lower photo: Exterior view of school, constructed of brick and concrete with central tower and an arcade on each side wing. Four cars are parked on the street in front of the school.
Date:: [circa 1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Taylor, photographer
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: The Los Angeles City Hall was designed by John Parkinson, John C. Austin, and Albert C. Martin, Sr., and was completed in 1928.
Date:: [between 1928-1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Exterior view of John Muir School, at 725 Ocean Park Blvd., with two cars parked in front. There are three large palm trees along the street curbs.
Date:: [circa 1920-1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Exterior view of the Santa Monica Public Library. The Main Library, built in 1904 with Carnegie funds, was remodeled in 1927 by architect E. J. Baume in a Spanish-style design
Date:: [circa 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Topanga School, located in Topanga Canyon. The school is constructed out of white stucco with Spanish roof tiling. The writing on the building reads "Topanga School" and "AD 1925."
Date:: [circa 1925-1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: The old Romanesque style Los Angeles City Hall from a view looking south on Broadway between Second Street and Third Street. Horse-drawn carriages are visible parked at the curb, and another moves by in a blur. The building was demolished after the new city hall was completed in 1928.
Date:: [circa 1888]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View of the Los Angeles County Courthouse from Broadway. The courthouse, completed in 1891, was located at the corner of Broadway and Temple St. This red sandstone facility utilized aspects of the Richardsonian Romanesque Style, with thick, rusticated stone walls, wall dormers, and central clock tower. The architects were Curlett, Eisen and Cuthbertson; San Diego architect, William S. Hebbard, who was working for the architecture firm of Curlett, Eisen and Cuthbertson as a draftsman, contributed to the design. This court house was demolished in 1936
Date:: [circa 1900-1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Also known as the Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo, the Royal Presidio Chapel is a Roman Catholic cathedral built in 1794. It is the oldest continuously operating parish and the oldest stone building in California. It is the only existing presidio chapel in California and the only existing building in the original Monterey Presidio. The church was founded by the Franciscan Father Junípero Serra as the chapel of Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo on June 3, 1770. Father Serra first established the original mission in Monterey at this location on June 3, 1770, near the native village of Tamo. However, Father Serra became engaged in a power struggle with Military Governor Pedro Fages, who was headquartered at the Presidio of Monterey. Serra relocated the mission to its current location in the present-day town of Carmel. The new mission was named Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo
Date:: [circa 1890]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Lower photo: Exterior view of school, constructed of brick and concrete with central tower and an arcade on each side wing. Four cars are parked on the street in front of the school.
Date:: [circa 1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

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