California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

First Pacific coast theater, Monterey, California, ca.1900

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First Pacific coast theater, Monterey, California, ca.1900

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Photograph of the first Pacific coast theater, an adobe structure in Monterey, ca.1900. Five doors and six windows in the one-story structure are visible. A dirt road with utility poles and lines runs beside the building in the foreground. Signs on the side of the building near the chimney at right read: "Save Bull Durham coupons", "Mecruit[?] cigars, 5¢"..., "B[...]ht [...] Sunday, June 7th [...] Admission 50¢".

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Title First Pacific coast theater, Monterey, California, ca.1900

Subject Building, Adobe (lcsh), Monterey County -- Monterey -- Architecture (file heading), performance sites (adlf), Theaters (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm., 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), photographic prints (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

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-m7513

Identifier 1839 (accession number), CHS-1839 (call number), CHS-1839 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7646 (legacy record id), chs-m7513 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-7640 (legacy record id), 1-204- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7646

Unique identifier UC123507

Legacy Identifier CHS-1839.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.8 in × 12.8 in at 300dpi
42.9 cm × 32.5 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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