California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

First day of work on Pacific Electric Railway's Del Rey and Redondo Trolley Line, ca.1900

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First day of work on Pacific Electric Railway's Del Rey and Redondo Trolley Line, ca.1900

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Photograph of the first day of work on Pacific Electric Railway's Del Rey and Redondo Trolley Line, ca.1900. A group of men is seen in the center of the picture near the beach in Playa Del Rey. Nearby are three large draft horses, including two hitched to a vehicle on the left side and another on the right. There are tow dogs in the foreground on the left. Above the large group of men is a wire running from the left side of the image to the right.

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Title First day of work on Pacific Electric Railway's Del Rey and Redondo Trolley Line, ca.1900

Subject Beaches (adlf), Beaches (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Playa Del Rey (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Playa del Rey Lagoon (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 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 1900

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-m7737

Identifier 10527 (accession number), CHS-10527 (call number), CHS-10527 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7972 (legacy record id), chs-m7737 (legacy record id), 1-56- (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7972

Unique identifier UC123684

Legacy Identifier CHS-10527.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.9 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
50.5 cm × 40.7 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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