California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Alvarado Street, showing the Sanchez -Castro and Malarin-Spence homes, Monterey, 1884

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View of Alvarado Street, showing the Sanchez -Castro and Malarin-Spence homes, Monterey, 1884

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Photograph of a view of Alvarado Street, showing the Sanchez -Castro and Malarin-Spence homes, Monterey, 1884. A bicycle is visible along the unpaved street in the extreme right foreground, beyond which the one-story barn-style rancher of the Sanchez-Castro home shows three doors and multiple windows. Farther down the street, the two-story barn-style Spence Malarin home is shown, a balcony extending from its second floor. A third, two-story building identified as the J.B. Alvarado home is also visible behind it, with bay windows extending from its second floor.

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Title View of Alvarado Street, showing the Sanchez -Castro and Malarin-Spence homes, Monterey, 1884

Subject Alvarado, J.B. (subject), Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), Dwellings (lcsh), Malarin, Refugia (subject), Monterey County -- Pacific Grove (file heading), residential sites (adlf), Sanchez-Castro (subject), Spence, Don David (subject), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Monterey (city or populated place), Monterey (counties), Pacific Grove (city or populated place), South Alvarado Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1884

Type images

Format 1 microfilm frame : negative, b&w ; 35 mm. (aacr2), microfilms (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 1884

Creator Perkins (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-m7620

Identifier 7614 (accession number), CHS-7614 (call number), chs-7614 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7859 (legacy record id), chs-m7620 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-7749 (legacy record id), 1-204- (microfiche number), K (microfilm reel number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7859

Unique identifier UC124187

Legacy Identifier chs-7614.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.2 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
51.5 cm × 40.7 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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