PERYHS Archives

A moody, somber image by Bruce Ward captures the pathos of the last evening of operation of streetcars in the city of Los Angeles, March 31, 1963, as the Metropolitan Transit Authority (the [...]

A 1958 photo of fish swimming through submerged Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) car bodies off Redondo Beach. From Ralph Cantos: In 1958, two years after LARY home-built K-4 [...]

William Wherry – known to all as Bill – poses for a photograph taken by his wife in the yard of their first home in South Pasadena, in 1937 or 1938. Wherry Family Photo, Charles [...]

A photo postcard from 1955 depicting a Pacific Electric PCC on Brand Boulevard in Glendale. From Ralph Cantos: 955 POST CARD of Beautiful Brand Blvd. GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA: A city. any city, is [...]

Pacific Electric car no. 342 at Colorado and Sierra Madre. The photographer is looking south and the car is getting ready to go northwest on Colorado. The buildings in the background are Turner [...]

Looking northeast from Lake Avenue just south of Colorado Boulevard, car 1135 leads a two car train to downtown Los Angeles via the Oak Knoll line. The building on the right stands on the [...]

C. C. Pierce & Co. Photographers, Los Angeles, Cal., USA, negative # 2863. Written on the back, “Fourth Street from Main, looking west, about 1887. The Farmers and Merchants Bank now [...]

E. S. Frost & Son Photographers, Colorado Street, Pasadena, Cal. On the back is stamped C. C. Pierce & Co. Photographers, 313 S. Spring Street, Los Angeles, Cal. Written in pencil is [...]

F. H. Maude Photo #150 depicting City Hall, Los Angeles, Cal. is written on the front of the image, but the back is stamped C. C. Pierce & Co., Photographers, 313 S. Spring Street, Los [...]

C. C. Pierce Collection, Historical Photographs, Photographer, 1572 W. Pico Street, Los Angeles, negative number 1704. Written on the back reads, “Florence House as Ellington Drug Store, [...]