Exterior of City Hall at night lined with stringed lights in San Francisco, ca.1900

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Photograph of an exterior of City Hall at night lined with stringed lights in San Francisco, ca.1900. A building with columns and a three-story domed tower is visible at center. Stringed white lights can be seen outlining the edges of the tower, while a statue is visible on a pedestal in front of the building. A road can be seen in front of the building, while a second runs from the foreground towards the building. A camera on a tripod is visible in the center of the street.

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Title Exterior of City Hall at night lined with stringed lights in San Francisco, ca.1900

Subject buildings (adlf), City halls (lcsh), Night (lcsh), San Francisco County -- Architecture -- City Halls (file heading), San Francisco old City Hall (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Francisco (city or populated place), San Francisco (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 12 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1900

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7937

Identifier 43267 (accession number), CHS-43267 (call number), CHS-43267 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8168 (legacy record id), chs-m7937 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8065 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8168

Unique identifier UC125291

Legacy Identifier CHS-43267.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.8 in × 22.1 in at 300dpi
35.2 cm × 56.1 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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