View of Sonoma from the hills, ca.1908

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Photograph of a view of Sonoma from the hills, ca.1908. A grassy hill is visible sloping downward at bottom. A tall tree is visible to the right with boulders surrounding it. A woman is visible from the side sitting on one of the rocks looking towards the left. She is wearing a dress with long sleeves and a hat, and appears to be holding a pad of paper on her lap. Beyond the hill, a crop field encircled by a wooden fence is visible. A building is visible in the center of the field, while homes and other buildings are visible towards the background. Open land and mountains are visible in the background.

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Title View of Sonoma from the hills, ca.1908

Subject buildings (lcsh), cities (adlf), Dwellings (lcsh), Sonoma County -- Sonoma (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Sonoma (city or populated place), Sonoma (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1908

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), 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 1908

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-m19667

Identifier 45687 (accession number), CHS-45687 (call number), CHS-45687 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19492 (legacy record id), chs-m19667 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14350 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19492

Unique identifier UC121421

Legacy Identifier CHS-45687.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.5 in × 15.7 in at 300dpi
52.2 cm × 39.9 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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