California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of earthquake damage at the Pacific Glass Works Company, San Francisco, 1906

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Exterior view of earthquake damage at the Pacific Glass Works Company, San Francisco, 1906

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Photograph of an exterior view of earthquake damage at the Pacific Glass Works Company, San Francisco, 1906. Large slabs of wood are scattered across the tall grass in the foreground along with many sand bags. Tall stacks of wood stand against the wide building at center. The tall building still stands upright on the far right with several small, rectangular windows in its visible wall. Its center portion, however, has collapsed towards the left revealing the many tall pipes behind it as well as the smaller structure on the far left.

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Title Exterior view of earthquake damage at the Pacific Glass Works Company, San Francisco, 1906

Subject buildings (adlf), Earthquakes (lcsh), Fires (lcsh), Pacific Glass Works (subject), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Francisco (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1906

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 18 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 1906

Creator 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-m24343

Identifier 39915 (accession number), CHS-39915 (call number), CHS-39915 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-23613 (legacy record id), chs-m24343 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 23613

Unique identifier UC124281

Legacy Identifier CHS-39915.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 27.1 in × 19.7 in at 300dpi
68.8 cm × 50.0 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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