California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Portrait of Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont inside her home, ca.1890

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Portrait of Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont inside her home, ca.1890

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Photographic portrait of Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont inside her home, ca.1890. Mrs. Fremont can be seen wearing a dark long dress sitting in a flowery cloth seat. She can be seen holding a small book or a piece of folded paper in her lap. A desk with many compartments, many of which are filled with writing tools and paper, can be seen to the left of the woman. The desk is decorated with candles and a vase of flowers. Two portraits of a Major and Mrs. Fremont can be seen on the wall behind her and her desk. A patterned drape can be seen covering the opening of a doorway to the right of the woman.

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Title Portrait of Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont inside her home, ca.1890

Subject Fremont, Jessie Benton (subject), Portraits -- Fremont, John C. and Jessie Benton (file heading), residential sites (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1890

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 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 1890

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-m13638

Identifier 5846 (accession number), CHS-5846 (call number), CHS-5846 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13087 (legacy record id), chs-m13638 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13793 (legacy record id), 1-22- (microfiche number), 1-90-216 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13087

Unique identifier UC137294

Legacy Identifier CHS-5846.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.5 in × 17.0 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 43.3 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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