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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Exterior view of Crocker Mansion on Nob Hill, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906
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Exterior view of Crocker Mansion on Nob Hill, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906
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Description
Photograph of an exterior view of Crocker Mansion on Nob Hill, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906. A brick road lies in the foreground with the large mansion behind it at center. The mansion is bordered on all sides by a sidewalk which is contained by a metal fence with thick, stone poles. A staircase leads from the sidewalk to the arched entrance which is damaged from the earthquake. The walls behind the entrance have crumbled to the ground.
Asset Metadata
Title
Exterior view of Crocker Mansion on Nob Hill, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Date Created
1906
Subject
Crocker Mansion
(subject),
Earthquakes
(lcsh),
Fires
(lcsh),
residential sites
(adlf),
Views
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
San Francisco
(city or populated place),
San Francisco
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1906
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)
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m23939
Identifier
49457 (
accession number
), CHS-49457 (
call number
), CHS-49457 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-22460 (
legacy record id
), chs-m23939 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
22460
Unique identifier
UC123586
Legacy Identifier
CHS-49457.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
27.1 in × 19.8 in at 300dpi
68.9 cm × 50.5 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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