California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View across the front lawn of the restored adobe of Don Jose Serrano on Whiting Ranch two miles east of El Toro, ca.1930

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View across the front lawn of the restored adobe of Don Jose Serrano on Whiting Ranch two miles east of El Toro, ca.1930

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Photograph of a view across the front lawn of the restored adobe of Don Jose Serrano on Whiting Ranch two miles east of El Toro, ca.1930. Three wooden lawn chairs can be seen arranged to the right on the well-trimmed grass, just in front of the stone porch of the adobe, where wood can be seen stacked to the left. Farther left, a small garden is sectoned-off by a row of stones and a wooden structure that appears to be a garage is partially visible. Tree foliage hangs down from the top of the frame.; Photoprint reads: "Near U.S. Forestry Camp (landmark). Historical landmark #199". Serrano was the original grantee of the Rancho Canada de los Alisos.

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Title View across the front lawn of the restored adobe of Don Jose Serrano on Whiting Ranch two miles east of El Toro, ca.1930

Subject Adobe houses (lcsh), Orange County -- San Juan Capistrano -- Architecture (file heading), residential sites (adlf), Serrano Adobe (subject), Serrano, Jose Don (subject), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), El Toro (city or populated place), Orange (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), 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 1930

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-m7803

Identifier 12532 (accession number), CHS-12532 (call number), CHS-12532 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8037 (legacy record id), chs-m7803 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-7933 (legacy record id), 1-33- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8037

Unique identifier UC124446

Legacy Identifier CHS-12532.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.6 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
52.4 cm × 41.2 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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