California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Interior view of the supposedly fireproof Continental Insurance Company, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, [s.d.]

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Interior view of the supposedly fireproof Continental Insurance Company, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, [s.d.]

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Photograph of an interior view of the supposedly fireproof Continental Insurance Company, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, [s.d.]. Columns support a stone frame overhead which stands above the sea of bricks and debris in the foreground below. The roof is completely demolished along with most of the outer walls. A small, brick structure within the fallen structure stands at center with heavy damage to its roof. The fallen bricks of its ceiling can be seen in a pile through a window on the structure's second floor. A tall, broken brick wall stands to the left of the structure.

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Title Interior view of the supposedly fireproof Continental Insurance Company, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, [s.d.]

Subject buildings (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Earthquakes (lcsh), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

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)

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m24054

Identifier 49477 (accession number), CHS-49477 (call number), CHS-49477 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-22944 (legacy record id), chs-m24054 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 22944

Unique identifier UC123901

Legacy Identifier CHS-49477.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 27.3 in × 19.5 in at 300dpi
69.3 cm × 49.5 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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