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Today is National Bike to Work Day. Here, Los Angeles Police...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:33:31 -0700

Today is National Bike to Work Day. Here, Los Angeles Police Department officers ride their bicycles down Broadway in May 1904.

Part of the Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.

The Farmers Market has been at Third and Fairfax since 1934. How...

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:55:06 -0700

The Farmers Market has been at Third and Fairfax since 1934. How did it get there? Discover the story of this L.A. institution in L.A. as Subject’s latest Los Angeles Magazine blog post.

A horse-drawn food truck in front of the University of Southern...

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:15:09 -0700

A horse-drawn food truck in front of the University of Southern California campus in 1910.

Part of the University of Southern California History Collection in the USC Digital Library.

Northeast corner of Fifth and Spring streets in downtown Los...

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:32:00 -0700

Northeast corner of Fifth and Spring streets in downtown Los Angeles, ca. 1905.

Part of the Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.

Never mind its pronunciation — here’s how Los Feliz...

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:32:29 -0700

Never mind its pronunciation — here’s how Los Feliz looked in 1928.

Part of the Automobile Club of Southern California collection in the USC Digital Library.

A run on the All Night And Day Bank at the corner of Sixth and...

Wed, 01 May 2013 16:37:21 -0700

A run on the All Night And Day Bank at the corner of Sixth and Spring in downtown Los Angeles, 1910.

Part of the Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.

Scene from a Hitchcock movie? No, this was the Los Angeles...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:12:31 -0700

Scene from a Hitchcock movie? No, this was the Los Angeles pigeon farm, at its peak home to 100,000 birds. Discover more in L.A. as Subject’s latest KCET contribution.

Where did all of L.A.’s wildflowers go? The Altadena poppy...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:07:19 -0700

Where did all of L.A.’s wildflowers go? The Altadena poppy field shown here in 1907 is now a suburban neighborhood.

(Part of the TICOR/Pierce Collection in the USC Digital Library)

Still growing today, the palm tree shown here in 1888 may be...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:52:57 -0700

Still growing today, the palm tree shown here in 1888 may be L.A.’s oldest. Where can you see it? Find out in L.A. as Subject’s latest CityDig post for Los Angeles magazine.

Before and after: reconstruction of the Sunset Boulevard...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:05:00 -0700

Before and after: reconstruction of the Sunset Boulevard overpass at Glendale Boulevard, 1934.

Part of the California Historical Society Collection in the USC Digital Library.

For decades, locally brewed Eastside was one of Los...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:18:55 -0700

For decades, locally brewed Eastside was one of Los Angeles’ favorite beers. Learn more about the city’s forgotten brewing history via L.A. as Subject’s latest CityDig post for Los Angeles magazine.

(1935 photo part of the Dick Whittington Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library)

A Mt. Lowe Railway observation car traverses Circular Bridge on...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:31:27 -0700

A Mt. Lowe Railway observation car traverses Circular Bridge on July 4, 1893.

Part of the Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.

Barrington Avenue as a dirt path. This circa 1930s view looks...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:53:25 -0700

Barrington Avenue as a dirt path. This circa 1930s view looks north up Barrington near Sawtelle, from a point south of Wilshire Boulevard.

Part of the California Historical Society Collection in the USC Digital Library.

The Venice waterways pictured here are now paved roadways. Find...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:17:10 -0700

The Venice waterways pictured here are now paved roadways. Find out why the community filled in its original, signature canals in L.A. as Subject’s latest for KCET.

(This photo of United States Island and the Cabrillo and Altair canals is part of the Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.)

A Union Oil filling station at West Adams and Hoover in 1935....

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:47:00 -0700

A Union Oil filling station at West Adams and Hoover in 1935. Part of the Dick Whittington Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.

Fifty years ago today, the Daily Trojan became the New York...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:01:29 -0700

Fifty years ago today, the Daily Trojan became the New York Trojan. Browse the full April 1, 1963, issue in the USC Digital Library.

1917 view of Lafayette Park, looking to the northwest toward...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:21:30 -0700

1917 view of Lafayette Park, looking to the northwest toward Hollywood. Wilshire Boulevard is visible on the extreme left.

Part of the Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.

Westlake Park (later MacArthur Park), circa 1892. The...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:46:00 -0700

Westlake Park (later MacArthur Park), circa 1892. The park’s lake began as a naturally occurring alkaline pond. The Wilshire Boulevard causeway divided the lake in 1934, and in 1942 the city renamed the park after Douglas MacArthur, a longtime general in the United States Army.

Part of the Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.

Circa 1908 view of 8th and Hope in downtown L.A., showing the...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:22:55 -0700

Circa 1908 view of 8th and Hope in downtown L.A., showing the Abbotsford Inn at the intersection’s southwest corner. Constructed between 1885 and 1888 as a boarding school, the building became a hotel in 1893. It was torn down in 1921 and replaced by the First Methodist Church.

The Urban Diachrony recently compared this image with a present-day view of the intersection, where a mixed-use apartment building is rising from the same site.

Part of the Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.

The Fanchon and Marco Girls, a vaudeville troupe, pose next to a...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:26:00 -0700

The Fanchon and Marco Girls, a vaudeville troupe, pose next to a cascading fountain in Monterey Park in 1930. Built originally as part of the Midwick View Estates housing development, the fountain today is part of Cascades Park. Here’s a present-day Google Street View of the same location: http://goo.gl/maps/UabRs

This is one of more than 30,000 photos from our “Dick” Whittington Collection that we’ve recently digitized with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: http://bit.ly/nehwhittington