California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Portrait of ninety year-old Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California, 1891

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Portrait of ninety year-old Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California, 1891

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Photographic portrait of ninety year-old Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California, 1891. He is pictured from his knees to his head and is standing with his arm resting on the back of a chair at left. His other hand is on an ivory cane at right. He is wearing a dark suit with a dark vest decorated with diamond buttons. He has a thick white beard and mustache, and his white hair is thinning. His light skin blends in with his facial hair. Picture file card reads "Pierce seems to have acquired the negative or print from Thomas Temple, son of Walter Temple".

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Title Portrait of ninety year-old Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California, 1891

Subject Men (lcsh), Pico (file heading), Pico, Pio (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1891

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegatives, photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 10 cm., 18 x 13 cm., 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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 1891

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-m19399

Identifier 11267 (accession number), CHS-11267 (call number), CHS-11267 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19297 (legacy record id), chs-m19399 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13934 (legacy record id), 1-70-511 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19297

Unique identifier UC137358

Legacy Identifier CHS-11267.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 9.2 in × 12.6 in at 300dpi
23.3 cm × 32.2 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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