Portrait of an engraving of George H. Bonebrake, [s.d.]

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Photograph of a portrait of an engraving of George H. Bonebrake, [s.d.]. He can be seen from the chest up facing slightly to the right. He has short wavy hair and a large grey goatee and mustache. He is wearing a three-piece suit with a bow tie. The background is light. "Eng'd by H.B. Hall's Sons, N.Y." -- at bottom. Photoprint reads: "Banker and Merchant(?)".; With F.C. Hawes, he co-founded the Semi-Tropic Land and Water Co., Los Angeles, in 1887, to "to purchase, improve, hold, and sell real estate, water and water rights and privileges; build reservoirs and ditches and lay pipes; distribute water and collect rates therefore; issue bonds and borrow and loan money, etc." according the the company minutes.

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Title Portrait of an engraving of George H. Bonebrake, [s.d.]

Subject Bonebrake, George H. (subject), Men (lcsh), Portraits -- Bo (file heading), Real estate developers (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 3 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm., 21 x 17 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat), transparencies (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-m13465

Identifier 3995 (accession number), CHS-3995 (call number), CHS-3995 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12965 (legacy record id), chs-m13465 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13620 (legacy record id), 1-70-72 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12965

Unique identifier UC135726

Legacy Identifier CHS-3995.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 12.7 in × 16.9 in at 300dpi
32.3 cm × 43.0 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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