California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Los Angeles, showing the Plaza and Pico House from Fort Moore Hill, ca.1876

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View of Los Angeles, showing the Plaza and Pico House from Fort Moore Hill, ca.1876

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Photograph of a view of Los Angeles, showing the Plaza and Pico House from Fort Moore Hill, ca.1876. The Pico House and Merced Theatre can be seen on Main Street at the foot of the hill that is partially visible in the foreground, while the Romanesque architecture of the Plaza is seen surrounding its circular courtyard a little farther back at center. The Plaza Catholic Church and Lugo house can be seen in the same vicinity to the left, with the Los Angeles River visible in the background. A residential area filled with one-story homes can be seen to the right.

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Title View of Los Angeles, showing the Plaza and Pico House from Fort Moore Hill, ca.1876

Subject buildings (adlf), Churches (lcsh), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Landscape architecture (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Plaza #1 -- General views -- 1860 to 1879 (file heading), Parks (lcsh), Theaters (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place buildings: Pico House (geographic subject), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), mountains: Fort Moore Hill (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1871/1881

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 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 1871/1881

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-m2380

Identifier 7607 (accession number), CHS-7607 (call number), CHS-7607 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3305 (legacy record id), chs-m2380 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-2441 (legacy record id), 1-14-24 (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3305

Unique identifier UC120522

Legacy Identifier CHS-7607.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.0 in × 9.0 in at 300dpi
33.1 cm × 23.0 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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