Corbis

Corbis is a Seattle, Washington-based licensing agency. Founded by Bill Gates in 1989 as Interactive Home Systems, with a goal to serve as a distributor of artwork for the prospective concept of digital art frames in homes, the company, later re-named Corbis, focused more intensely on the acquisition and preservation of historic images, and a general photo and footage licensing business. The company also expanded into the entertainment advertising market, as well as providing rights clearance and personality rights management services.

In January 2016, Corbis announced that it would sell its image licensing businesses to Visual China Group. VCG will, in turn, license the images to Getty Images outside of China.

Lines of business

Image licensing and search

The company's collection includes contemporary creative, editorial, entertainment, and historical photography as well as art and illustrations. Among its acquisitions are the 11 million piece Bettmann Archive, acquired in 1995; the Sygma collection in France (1999); and the German stock image company ZEFA (2005). Corbis also has the rights to digital reproduction for art from the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the National Gallery in London.

California Boulevard (Pasadena)

California Boulevard is a major East-West road in Pasadena, East Pasadena, and San Marino, California, measuring 5.7 miles in length. Much like Washington Boulevard to the north, California is commonly used to bypass the central neighborhoods of Pasadena, instead passing through more affluent neighborhoods and suburbs.

History

California Boulevard was a major thoroughfare as early as the 1890s, being the location of Tournament Park, where the Tournament of Roses was originally held (the festivities were moved to Victory Park following the Second World War and the original grounds became part of the Caltech campus). The street was also served by two streetcar lines (East California and West California). At one time, a bridge over the Arroyo Seco was proposed to connect the neighborhood of Annandale with the rest of the city by streetcar, but the bridge was never built. Instead, a high bridge was built on La Loma Road, one block south.

Geography

California Boulevard begins abruptly at the Arroyo Seco as a small residential street. At Pasadena Avenue, it serves as the current terminus for State Route 710. Between the highway and Marengo Avenue, the road passes through a heavy commercial/industrial zone, including Huntington Memorial Hospital, before returning to a residential street (mostly apartment buildings). Between Wilson and Hill Avenues, the road passes through the campus of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and between Allen Avenue and San Gabriel Boulevard, the street runs through the northernmost edge of the city of San Marino. Between San Gabriel Boulevard and Michillinda Avenue, the road passes through East Pasadena. Past Michillinda, the road continues as Sunset Boulevard in Arcadia.

Pasadena, California

Pasadena /ˌpæsəˈdiːnə/ is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of 2013, the estimated population of Pasadena was 139,731, making it the 183rd-largest city in the United States. Pasadena is the ninth-largest city in Los Angeles County. Pasadena was incorporated on June 19, 1886, becoming only the second city to be incorporated in what is now Los Angeles County, after Los Angeles (April 4, 1850). It is one of the primary cultural centers of the San Gabriel Valley.

The city is known for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and Tournament of Roses Parade. In addition, Pasadena is also home to many scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,Pasadena City College, Fuller Theological Seminary, Art Center College of Design, the Pasadena Playhouse, the Norton Simon Museum of Art and the Pacific Asia Museum.

History

Indigenous culture and colonization

The original inhabitants of Pasadena and surrounding areas were members of the Native American Hahamog-na tribe, a branch of the Tongva Nation. They spoke the Tongva language (part of the Uto-Aztecan languages group) and had lived in the Los Angeles Basin for thousands of years.Tongva dwellings lined the Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County) in present day Pasadena and south to where it joins the Los Angeles River and along other natural waterways in the city.