California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Southern Pacific Railroad locomotive number twenty, ca.1895

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Southern Pacific Railroad locomotive number twenty, ca.1895

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Photograph of Southern Pacific Railroad locomotive number twenty, ca.1895. At center, a snub locomotive car appears to be a steam engine enclosed into a caboose. The car is open-air and a large boiler is visible through the windows of the exterior. The engine was shipped around the Horn for use in construction work on the S.P. Railroad and later used in Los Angeles yards up to 1885. Built for the Southern California Motor Road running from San Bernardino to Colton. The frame was built around a steam dummy so as not to frighten horses on the road. Purchased by Southern Pacific in 1900 and used about the yards.

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Title Southern Pacific Railroad locomotive number twenty, ca.1895

Subject Building (lcsh), General Subjects -- Transportation -- Railroads (file heading), Locomotives (lcsh), railroad features (adlf), Railroads (lcsh), Southern Pacific Railroad (corporate name), Transportation -- Railroads -- Southern California -- Southern Pacific -- Engines (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1895

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1895

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-m12360

Identifier 360 (accession number), CHS-360 (call number), CHS-360 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11900 (legacy record id), chs-m12360 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12515 (legacy record id), 1-119-1 (microfiche number), 1-119-25 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11900

Unique identifier UC130727

Legacy Identifier CHS-360.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 9.9 in × 7.8 in at 300dpi
25.3 cm × 19.8 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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