California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, Santa Clara, California [s.d.]

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Exterior view of the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, Santa Clara, California [s.d.]

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Photograph of the exterior view of the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, Santa Clara, California [s.d.]. The great dome of the 36" refractor telescope is pictured in front, with the rest of the observatory trailing left into the background and terminating in a second telescopic dome. Further left, an unpaved, single-lane road lined by a post-and-wire fence curves up the mountain in front of the observatory. A man in dark clothing is pictured approximately three-quarters of the way up it, facing left. A few large crates can be seen to the extreme right, next to the first dome.

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Title Exterior view of the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, Santa Clara, California [s.d.]

Subject Astronomy (subject), Lick Observatory (subject), Observatories (lcsh), Observatories -- Lick Observatory (file heading), research facilities (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), mountains: Mount Hamilton (geographic subject), Santa Clara (counties), USA (countries)

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)

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-m17778

Identifier 6250 (accession number), CHS-6250 (call number), CHS-6250 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17764 (legacy record id), chs-m17778 (legacy record id), 1-100-16 (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17764

Unique identifier UC142682

Legacy Identifier CHS-6250.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.3 in × 15.6 in at 300dpi
49.1 cm × 39.6 cm at 300dpi

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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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