California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Landscape of Pasadena on Orange Grove Avenue, looking north, ca.1876

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Landscape of Pasadena on Orange Grove Avenue, looking north, ca.1876

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Photograph of the landscape of Pasadena on Orange Grove Avenue, looking north, ca.1876. The Presbyterian Church is visible in the distance at right, while the Gilmore House and the nearby Holmes House is on the left. Another, unidentified house stands in the center of the photograph, surrounded by the private farming fields. "This was Pasadena to the 'Indiana Colonists' of about 1875. Looking from a point near Arroyo Seco northeast, winding Orange Grove Ave. at right and Bellefountain Ave. in the foreground. House at left belonged to H.G. Bennet, a founder and Pasadena's first school is under trees at in center."--From the L.A. Times 1/24/54

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Title Landscape of Pasadena on Orange Grove Avenue, looking north, ca.1876

Subject agricultural sites (adlf), Bennett, H. G. (subject), Los Angeles County -- Pasadena -- Streets -- Orange Grove Avenue (file heading), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Orange Grove Avenue (roadway), Pasadena (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1876

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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 1876

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-m6199

Identifier 6461 (accession number), CHS-6461 (call number), CHS-6461 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6297 (legacy record id), chs-m6199 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6307 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6308 (legacy record id), 1-37-99 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6297

Unique identifier UC128104

Legacy Identifier CHS-6461.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 33.4 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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