Exterior view of people in front of Treasury house, opposite Plaza at Sonoma, [s.d.]

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Photograph of men posed outside the Treasury house, Sonoma, [s.d.]. A two story building with a sloped shingled roof and small tower on top is visible with a few dozen men standing in front on the dirt road. The men all wear suits and caps, except for a boy wearing overalls and one man wearing a long white apron. A horse-drawn carriage is visible at left with four people sitting inside, while an empty carriage is visible at right. A man at center is visible standing on top of a bench, while there are five males standing on a long balcony on the second story. Windows are visible on both stories, and paint is beginning to peel away on the walls. A sign reading, "French Restaurant. Saloon" hangs from the second story, while "Fresh Bread Every Morning", "Yerba", and "This House and Lot For Sale" are painted on the first-story walls at right. Photoprint reads: "Opposite Plaza at Sonoma". Picture file card reads: "Trescony house, opposite plaze. Townspeople(?) gathered in front of house; complex also includes French restaurant and Saloon".

Asset Metadata

Title Exterior view of people in front of Treasury house, opposite Plaza at Sonoma, [s.d.]

Subject buildings (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Sonoma County -- Sonoma (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 12 x 17 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-m19664

Identifier 11400 (accession number), CHS-11400 (call number), CHS-11400 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19489 (legacy record id), chs-m19664 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14350 (legacy record id), 1-214- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19489

Unique identifier UC121471

Legacy Identifier CHS-11400.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.6 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
44.8 cm × 33.4 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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