View of the old wharf at Coronado, before Ferry slips were built, ca.1886

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Photograph of a view of the old wharf at Coronado, before Ferry slips were built, ca.1886. The masts of several large sail boats juts into the sky, high above the cityscape in the background. The steamship "Coronado" is parked at the wharf (foreground). A trolley car is making its way across the wharf. At right is a sign that reads: "Coronado".

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Title View of the old wharf at Coronado, before Ferry slips were built, ca.1886

Subject piers (adlf), San Diego County -- Coronado (file heading), ships (lcsh), Street-railroads (lcsh), Wharves (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Coronado (city or populated place), San Diego (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1886

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1886

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7944

Identifier 8441 (accession number), CHS-8441 (call number), CHS-8441 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8175 (legacy record id), chs-m7944 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8073 (legacy record id), 1-46- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8175

Unique identifier UC125648

Legacy Identifier CHS-8441.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 12.9 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 32.8 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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