Exterior view of the public library in Watsonville, ca.1900

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Photograph of a public library in Watsonville, ca.1900. The dark, double doors of the library stand at center guarded by thick columns at the top of a wide, rounded staircase. The columns support a stone rooftop which reads "Public Library" above dark, rectangular windows which sit on either side of the doors. The brick library extends to either side with tall, rectangular windows with thick, stone borders in the walls. A raised, paved sidewalk borders the library along the side of the two streets which intersect in front of the library's entrance at center. Part of a lightly-colored, wooden structure can be seen on the far right.

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Title Exterior view of the public library in Watsonville, ca.1900

Subject buildings (lcsh), library buildings (adlf), Santa Cruz County -- Watsonville (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Santa Cruz (counties), USA (countries), Watsonville (city or populated place)

Temporal Subject 1900

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)

Date Created 1900

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-m19489

Identifier 45579 (accession number), CHS-45579 (call number), CHS-45579 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19380 (legacy record id), chs-m19489 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14357 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19380

Unique identifier UC137226

Legacy Identifier CHS-45579.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.9 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
48.1 cm × 35.2 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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