Exterior view of the Carnegie Public Library in Palo Alto, [s.d.]

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Carnegie Public Library in Palo Alto, [s.d.]. A wide staircase leads from the sidewalk on the left to the large, arched doorway at center. Trees line the sidewalk in the foreground while bushes line the walls of the library on the left. A second building can be seen on the far left and both buildings are surrounded by their yards of grass.

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Title Exterior view of the Carnegie Public Library in Palo Alto, [s.d.]

Subject Libraries (lcsh), library buildings (adlf), Santa Clara County -- Palo Alto (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Palo Alto (city or populated place), Santa Clara (counties), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 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)

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-m19257

Identifier 45450 (accession number), CHS-45450 (call number), CHS-45450 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19168 (legacy record id), chs-m19257 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14346 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19168

Unique identifier UC137220

Legacy Identifier CHS-45450.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.3 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
49.1 cm × 34.8 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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