California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of the San Pedro Harbor, showing the breakwater, ca.1925

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View of the San Pedro Harbor, showing the breakwater, ca.1925

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Photograph of a view of the San Pedro Harbor, showing the breakwater, ca.1925. In the left foreground, a small utility shed stands with signs that read "Bait and Tackle" and "Fresh Fish". Farther to the left, five individuals can be seen standing at the end of a short plank walkway with their backs to the camera, just on the edge of the long stone stretch of the breakwater. Filling the remainder of the background, what appear to be large cargo ships are scattered through the harbor in open water, while two tug-boats float next to one another to the left.

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Title View of the San Pedro Harbor, showing the breakwater, ca.1925

Subject Breakwaters (adlf), Breakwaters -- Design and construction (lcsh), Harbors (lcsh), Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- Engineering -- Breakwater (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), San Pedro (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1925

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 1925

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-m14202

Identifier 9107 (accession number), CHS-9107 (call number), CHS-9107 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13902 (legacy record id), chs-m14202 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14364 (legacy record id), 1-50-124 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13902

Unique identifier UC138243

Legacy Identifier CHS-9107.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.2 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
51.4 cm × 40.8 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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