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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of a lawn being watered, showing a horse-drawn streetcar on Garfield Avenue in Alhambra, ca.1888
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View of a lawn being watered, showing a horse-drawn streetcar on Garfield Avenue in Alhambra, ca.1888
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Photograph of a view of a lawn being watered, showing a horse-drawn streetcar on Garfield Avenue in Alhambra, ca.1888. A tall sprinkler is pictured at center attached to a standard garden hose in the middle of a lawn peppered by bushes and saplings. In the left backgorund, two horses draw a streetcar across an unpaved road.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of a lawn being watered, showing a horse-drawn streetcar on Garfield Avenue in Alhambra, ca.1888
Subject
Horse railroads
(lcsh),
Los Angeles County -- Alhambra -- Streets
(file heading),
Parks
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh),
Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- Horse drawn cars
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Alhambra
(city or populated place),
California
(states),
Garfield Avenue
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1888
Type
images
Format
4 photographs : photonegatives, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
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
1888
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5077
Identifier
12713 (
accession number
), CHS-12713 (
call number
), CHS-12713 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-25624 (
legacy record id
), chs-m5077 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-12750 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-5179 (
legacy record id
), 1-24- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
25624
Unique identifier
UC129010
Legacy Identifier
CHS-12713.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.3 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
44.0 cm × 34.4 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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