Exterior view of Municipal Water Works building in Santa Clara, California, [s.d.]

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Photograph of an exterior view of Municipal Water Works building in Santa Clara, California, [s.d.]. The walls of large building at center are blanketed with climbing plants. The edges of the roof are exposed as are the arched windows along the wall. Three men in working clothes stand with their hands at their hips in front of the corner of the building with the entrance to the right and a driveway in front of them. Small grass yards can be seen in the foreground and a tall pipe extends from the roof in the background.

Asset Metadata

Title Exterior view of Municipal Water Works building in Santa Clara, California, [s.d.]

Subject buildings (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Santa Clara County -- Santa Clara (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Santa Clara (city or populated place), Santa Clara (counties), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 19 x 25 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)

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-m19394

Identifier 45521 (accession number), CHS-45521 (call number), CHS-45521 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19292 (legacy record id), chs-m19394 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14356 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19292

Unique identifier UC136928

Legacy Identifier CHS-45521.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.0 in × 15.5 in at 300dpi
50.8 cm × 39.6 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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