California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the first State Capitol building in Monterey, 1898

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Exterior view of the first State Capitol building in Monterey, 1898

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Photograph of the exterior of the first State Capitol building in Monterey, 1898. The building appears to have been built in two adjoining sections. On the right is a low single story adobe building with rectangular windows and adobe steps leading to a wooden door. On the left is a larger two story building with a Romanesque façade that includes two large columns flanking the entryway. There are two stairways leading to a second-floor balcony that covers the porch. There is a very tall but flagless flagpole between the two columns. There is brush on the ground in front of the building. Monterey was the capitol of California from 1777 until 1849.

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Title Exterior view of the first State Capitol building in Monterey, 1898

Subject buildings (lcsh), capitol buildings (adlf), Legislative bodies (lcsh), Monterey County -- General (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1898

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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 1898

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-m7524

Identifier 10131 (accession number), CHS-10131 (call number), CHS-10155 (call number), CHS-10131 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7656 (legacy record id), chs-m7524 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-7651 (legacy record id), 1-204- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7656

Unique identifier UC123515

Legacy Identifier CHS-10131.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 8.5 in × 6.1 in at 300dpi
21.8 cm × 15.5 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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