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Originally Posted by nadeau
Thanks! That would likely mean the photographer is C. C. Pierce or that it came from his collection. I’ll keep searching the USC Archive for the closer angle.
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OK, so here come the noir. C.C. Pierce lived a long life as a photographer. During his life he acquired prints or negatives from his contemporaries and erased their names from their work. The above negative (numbered and all) might be his work, or they might have been the important work of other Angelenos. Imagine his world of acquisitions. Who was C. C. Pierce? “I’d love to see your work some time”. Who were those other photographers? I appreciate that he had an archive, despite its archival deficiencies. Sadly, even his own legacy as a photographer has been lost amongst his collection.