California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of a street in California, showing earthquake damage to a church on the right, [s.d.]

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View of a street in California, showing earthquake damage to a church on the right, [s.d.]

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Photograph of a view of a street in California, showing earthquake damage to a church on the right, [s.d.]. A set of wide tracks stripes the cobblestone road at center where a man in a long jacket and hat walks towards a crowd of people in the background. A building has crumbled on the right and its pieces have spilled into the street below. Behind the first set of ruins stands a large church with a tall tower at its front wall. A hill of fallen bricks spills out the tall, arched windows of the church on its visible side. A building on the left is completely destroyed while more tall, damaged buildings continue down the street into the distance.

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Title View of a street in California, showing earthquake damage to a church on the right, [s.d.]

Subject Churches (lcsh), Earthquakes (lcsh), Fires (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), 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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m24044

Identifier 49467 (accession number), CHS-49467 (call number), CHS-49467 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-22917 (legacy record id), chs-m24044 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 22917

Unique identifier UC123896

Legacy Identifier CHS-49467.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.9 in × 27.6 in at 300dpi
50.5 cm × 70.2 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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