California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Drawing of the Bay of Monterey, with a figure on horseback, from Alexander Forbes' book, California: A History of Upper and Lower California, 1839

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Drawing of the Bay of Monterey, with a figure on horseback, from Alexander Forbes' book, California: A History of Upper and Lower California, 1839

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Photograph of a drawing of the Bay of Monterey, with a figure on horseback, from Alexander Forbes' book, California: A History of Upper and Lower California, (London 1839), the first book on California written in English. There are two people conversing in the foreground of the picture under a large tree--a mounted man and a woman in a dress. The area around them is densely covered in foliage. In the background on the left side of the picture is a small house, while on the right side there are two ships on the water of the bay. There are mountains across the bay.

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Title Drawing of the Bay of Monterey, with a figure on horseback, from Alexander Forbes' book, California: A History of Upper and Lower California, 1839

Subject Books (lcsh), Capes (adlf), Forbes, Alexander (subject), Horses (lcsh), Monterey County -- General (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1839

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), 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 1839

Creator Forbes, Alexander (artist), 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-m7532

Identifier 9808 (accession number), CHS-9808 (call number), CHS-9808 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7664 (legacy record id), chs-m7532 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-7659 (legacy record id), 1-204- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7664

Unique identifier UC123758

Legacy Identifier CHS-9808.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.6 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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