California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Avalon in the 1890s showing a church under construction on Metropole Avenue, ca.1895

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View of Avalon in the 1890s showing a church under construction on Metropole Avenue, ca.1895

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Photograph of a view of Avalon in the 1890s showing a church under construction on Metropole Avenue, ca.1895. The half-constructed building of the church is visible in the distance just right of center, next to a dirt path. Hills and mountains surround the clearing and a second building can be seen finished closer to center. A tent is partially visible in the right foreground. More houses are visible along the dirt path in the background hills. Picture file card reads: "S.C. Weston--photo Willmington.".

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Title View of Avalon in the 1890s showing a church under construction on Metropole Avenue, ca.1895

Subject Building (lcsh), Churches (lcsh), Islands (lcsh), Islands (adlf), Los Angeles County -- Catalina -- General (file heading), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Avalon (city or populated place), California (states), islands: Catalina Island (geographic subject), Los Angeles (counties), Metropole Avenue (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1890/1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), 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)

Date Created 1890/1900

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer), Weston, S.C. (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-m5500

Identifier 7603 (accession number), CHS-7603 (call number), CHS-7603 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-26021 (legacy record id), chs-m5500 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5613 (legacy record id), 1-26- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 26021

Unique identifier UC130105

Legacy Identifier CHS-7603.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 11.9 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 30.3 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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