Southern Pacific Long Wharf at Santa Monica called "Port Los Angeles"

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Title Southern Pacific Long Wharf at Santa Monica called "Port Los Angeles"

Description Photograph of Southern Pacific Railroad Long Wharf at Santa Monica called the "Port Los Angeles". Wharf was commenced in summer of 1892 and finished in 1894. Wharf was turned over to Pacific Electric Railway in 1913 and shipping ceased. In November 1919 the Pacific Electric Railway announced they were going to pull it all down and by the middle of the next summer not a trace of it was left. The image is a composite with 4 areas: the wharf extending from the coast to its terminus in the ocean, ships surround the terminus and a train is visible on the tracks (middle of image); close-up of ship's prow showing anchor and figurehead of a half-nude woman (upper left); encircled by a doubly knotted rope is a docked sailing ship, on the dock are piles of dry goods (upper right); close-ups of 2 large ships (sailboat & steamer) and several smaller sailboats (lower left).

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1894

Subject Los Angeles -- Santa Monica -- General views (file heading), Pacific Ocean (lcsh), piers (adlf), Piers -- California (lcsh), Railroads -- Tracks (lcsh), Shipping (file heading), ships (file heading), ships (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Santa Monica (city or populated place)

Temporal Subject 1894

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 16.5 x 21.5 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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)

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m14204

Identifier 1 (accession number), CHS-1 (call number), CHS-1 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13910 (legacy record id), chs-m14204 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13910

Unique identifier UC137691

Legacy Identifier CHS-1.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.5 in × 14.3 in at 300dpi
47.2 cm × 36.4 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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