California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Pacific Elelctric Railroad at Balboa Beach, ca.1910

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Pacific Elelctric Railroad at Balboa Beach, ca.1910

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Photograph of the beach and Pacific Elelctric Railroad at Balboa Beach, ca.1910. There are two people strolling in front of a row of ten identical bath houses (cottages?) on the right side of the image, while the train station is in the background. A sign on the two-story station reads "Balboa Beach". The station itself is has a covered porch and balcony, as well as a cupola. There is an electric rail car on the left side of the image, and words on it read "415 Pacific Electric 415".

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Title Pacific Elelctric Railroad at Balboa Beach, ca.1910

Subject Beaches (adlf), Electric railroads -- Stations (lcsh), Orange County -- Corona Del Mar -- Balboa (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Balboa Beach (city or populated place), Balboa Island (city or populated place), California (states), Newport Beach (city or populated place), Orange (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1910

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm., 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 1910

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-m7765

Identifier 9709 (accession number), CHS-9709 (call number), CHS-9709 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8000 (legacy record id), chs-m7765 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-7895 (legacy record id), 1-52- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8000

Unique identifier UC124291

Legacy Identifier CHS-9709.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.9 in × 16.5 in at 300dpi
53.2 cm × 42.0 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

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