California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Portrait of Don Manuel Romero and his wife Dona Gregoria Ontiveros (Ontiveras) of Rancho San Juan Cajon de Santa Ana, Santa Barbara, ca.1870

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Portrait of Don Manuel Romero and his wife Dona Gregoria Ontiveros (Ontiveras) of Rancho San Juan Cajon de Santa Ana, Santa Barbara, ca.1870

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Photographic portrait of Don Manuel Romero and his wife Dona Gregoria Ontiveros (Ontiveras) of Rancho San Juan Cajon de Santa Ana, Santa Barbara, ca.1870. Don Manuel is seated at left and is looking straight ahead. He is wearing a dark jacket with a darker collar, dark trousers and a light shirt. He has a shiny bandana around his head, and his long, light-colored hair sticks out from underneath. His wife is seated at right with her hand on her husband's shoulder and is also facing straight ahead. She is wearing a long dress with wide vertical stripes. Romero was a captain and a Spanish soldier at the presidio.

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Title Portrait of Don Manuel Romero and his wife Dona Gregoria Ontiveros (Ontiveras) of Rancho San Juan Cajon de Santa Ana, Santa Barbara, ca.1870

Subject Mexican Americans (lcsh), Ontiveros (Ontiveras), Dona Gregoria (subject), Orange County -- Santa Ana -- General (file heading), Rancho San Juan Cajon de Santa Ana (subject), Romero (file heading), Romero, Don Manuel (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1870

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photoprints, b&w ; 18 x 13 cm. (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 1870

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7703

Identifier 11569 (accession number), CHS-11569 (call number), CHS-11569 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7939 (legacy record id), chs-m7703 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13950 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-7833 (legacy record id), 1-52- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7939

Unique identifier UC123739

Legacy Identifier CHS-11569.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.6 in × 18.8 in at 300dpi
34.6 cm × 47.8 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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