California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Painting by Alson Clark, "Commodore Sloat Taking Monterey", depicting two ships releasing row boats to the shore, ca.1900

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Painting by Alson Clark, "Commodore Sloat Taking Monterey", depicting two ships releasing row boats to the shore, ca.1900

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Photograph of a painting by Alson Clark, "Commodore Sloat Taking Monterey", depicting two ships releasing row boats to the shore, ca.1900. Two ships, each with three masts, stand in the harbor to the right. Row boats are pictured making their way from the foremost ship towards the shore at left, where a two-story adobe fort is pictured.

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Title Painting by Alson Clark, "Commodore Sloat Taking Monterey", depicting two ships releasing row boats to the shore, ca.1900

Subject bays (adlf), Fishing boats (lcsh), Monterey County -- Pacific Grove (file heading), Sloat, Commodore (subject), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Monterey (city or populated place), Monterey (counties), Pacific Grove (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1846-07-07

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w. (aacr2), art (aat), 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 1895/1905

Creator Clark, Alson (artist), Vischer, Edward (photographer)

Contributor Miss Annette Glick Collection (provenance)

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-m7616

Identifier 7807 (accession number), CHS-7807 (call number), CHS-7807 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7855 (legacy record id), chs-m7616 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-7745 (legacy record id), 1-204- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7855

Unique identifier UC124531

Legacy Identifier CHS-7807.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.3 in × 11.5 in at 300dpi
41.4 cm × 29.3 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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