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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Alvarado Street from the Custom House, Monterey, California, ca.1890
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View of Alvarado Street from the Custom House, Monterey, California, ca.1890
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Photograph of a view of Alvarado Street from the Custom House, Monterey, California, ca.1890. The dirt road curves to the right and branches off into two roads forming a V-shaped block in the center. Streetcar tracks line the road. Utility poles line the streets and their wires zigzag across the street connecting to buildings and street lights(?). A majority of the buildings along the street are no more than two-stories tall. A man wearing a sombrero and poncho stands in front of the building in the foreground.; "At one time during California's Mexican era the Monterey Custom House presided over Mexico's only port of entry on the Alta California coast. It was here that Commodore John Drake Sloat raised the American flag on July 7, 1846, claiming over 600,000 square miles of territory for the United States. The Custom House is California's first registered State Historic Landmark, and is the oldest public building on the west coast. The building was in existence by 1827, but deteriorated and was replaced by a larger structure in 1841. The construction was done by Thomas O. Larkin. Larkin also did grading and leveling. A tongue of land to the north of the Custom House was used by Larkin as the approach to a wharf of rock-filled cribwork (see sketch). This was completed in 1846. No major additions were made to the Custom House after 1846. The building was restored in the early 1900s by the Native Sons of the Golden West, and has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building is now a part of Monterey State Historic Park." -- unknown author.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Alvarado Street from the Custom House, Monterey, California, ca.1890
Subject
Building, Adobe
(lcsh),
roadways
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Alvarado Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
Monterey
(city or populated place),
Monterey
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1890
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
(aacr2),
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
1890
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-m7587
Identifier
5981 (
accession number
), CHS-5981 (
call number
), CHS-5981 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-7826 (
legacy record id
), chs-m7587 (
legacy record id
), 1-204- (
microfiche number
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
7826
Unique identifier
UC124200
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5981.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.3 in × 14.6 in at 300dpi
49.1 cm × 37.0 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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