California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

People in Pasadena celebrating the arrival of Santa Fe's first train on the San Gabriel Rail Road, Los Angeles, September 21, 1885

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People in Pasadena celebrating the arrival of Santa Fe's first train on the San Gabriel Rail Road, Los Angeles, September 21, 1885

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Photograph of people in Pasadena celebrating the arrival of Santa Fe's first train on the San Gabriel Rail Road, Los Angeles, September 21, 1885. Celebrators stand underneath a trellised canopy. Girls and women clothed in light-colored dresses line either side of the banquet table at center. Men in suits take up the majority of the spaces at the two flanking tables. The tables themselves are decorated with plant leaves and what appear to be centerpieces depicting vases overflowing with fronds and grapes. An inverted sign in the background reads "Welcome [emocleW]". Picture file card reads "John D. Ripley, Fireman of the engine. Louise Martin--Garfield Study Group".

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Title People in Pasadena celebrating the arrival of Santa Fe's first train on the San Gabriel Rail Road, Los Angeles, September 21, 1885

Subject Dinners and dining (lcsh), Festivals -- Celebrations -- Railroad (subject), Festivals and parades -- General (file heading), railroad features (adlf), Railroads (lcsh), Santa Fe Railroad (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Pasadena (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1885-09-21

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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 1885-09-21

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-m10470

Identifier 6465 (accession number), CHS-6465 (call number), CHS-6465 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13538 (legacy record id), chs-m10470 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10617 (legacy record id), 1-37-102 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13538

Unique identifier UC138022

Legacy Identifier CHS-6465.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 33.4 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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