Painted portrait depicting Vasco Nunez de Balboa, discoverer of the Pacific Ocean, [s.d.]

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Photograph of a painted portrait depicting Vasco Nunez de Balboa, discoverer of the Pacific Ocean, [s.d.]. Balboa is pictured from his waist to his head and is facing to the left and gesturing. He is wearing metal armor and a metal plumed helmet. Balboa has a dark mustache and goatee and a thin nose. He is holding a telescope in his hand at right, near his sword. There is a thick-trunked tree in the background. He died at the Isthmus of Panama in 1519.

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Title Painted portrait depicting Vasco Nunez de Balboa, discoverer of the Pacific Ocean, [s.d.]

Subject Balboa, Vasco Nunez de (subject), forests (adlf), Men (lcsh), Portraits -- Ba (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 18 x 13 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), 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)

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-m13420

Identifier 11530 (accession number), CHS-11530 (call number), CHS-11530 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12920 (legacy record id), chs-m13420 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13574 (legacy record id), 1-70-36 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12920

Unique identifier UC134878

Legacy Identifier CHS-11530.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.8 in × 18.7 in at 300dpi
35.1 cm × 47.5 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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