California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of Mount Palomar Observatory showing a large door, ca.1930-1940

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Exterior view of Mount Palomar Observatory showing a large door, ca.1930-1940

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Photograph of an exterior view of Mount Palomar Observatory showing a large door, ca.1930-1940. In the center, the large doors of the observatory are visible with rectangular indents of ornamentation. Directly in front of the doors stands what appears to be a woman, her shadow is cast on the door. There is gravel in the foreground of the picture and a pile of dirt to the left of the doors. To the right of the doors sits what seems to be a contraption used for maintenance on two wheels. The exterior walls of the concrete base of the observatory surround the doorway.

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Title Exterior view of Mount Palomar Observatory showing a large door, ca.1930-1940

Subject Mount Palomar Observatory (corporate name), Observatories (lcsh), Observatories -- Mount Palomar Observatory (file heading), research facilities (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Diego (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930/1940

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1930/1940

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10559

Identifier 8296 (accession number), CHS-8296 (call number), CHS-8296 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15686 (legacy record id), chs-m10559 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10707 (legacy record id), 1-100-23 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15686

Unique identifier UC143822

Legacy Identifier CHS-8296.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 10.5 in × 8.7 in at 300dpi
26.8 cm × 22.1 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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