Portrait of George C. Yount, [s.d.]

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Photographic portrait of George C. Yount, [s.d.]. Yount is shown from his torso to his head and is looking to the right. He is wearing a dark jacket, dark vest, dark bowtie, and lightly-colored collared shirt. He is mostly bald, and his remaining dark hair is shoulder-length. The border of the image is curved into a design.; Born in Burke County, North Carolina, on May 4, 1794, Yount came to California in 1831 and died at his Caymus Rancho on October 3, 1865. He fought through the War of 1812, engaging Indians on the Western frontier. After the war, he was a hunter, trapper and trader. In 1830, he joined the party formed by William Wolfskill in New Mexico to trap in the great valleys of California and arrived in Los Angeles in February, 1831. He was baptized at the Mission San Rafael as Jorge Concepcion, and in that year was granted Caymus Rancho, two leagues in what is now Napa County, and in 1843 was given La Jota, a one league extension of Caymus. He built a house on his ranch and was for many years the only white man in the vicinity. He was very successful in his relations with the Indians; his fearless character and just dealing won their respect and he had little difficulty dealing with them. The squatters and land lawyers got most of his land, but he saved a portion of it. In 1843 his two daughters, Frances and Elizabeth, came with Joseph B. Chiles. Frances was accompanied by her husband, Bartlett Vines and Elizabeth became the wife of John Calvert Davis, and after his death, of Eugene L. Sullivan.

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Title Portrait of George C. Yount, [s.d.]

Subject Men (lcsh), Portraits -- Y (file heading), Yount, George C. (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm., 18 x 13 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat), transparencies (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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13840

Identifier 11443 (accession number), CHS-11443 (call number), CHS-11443 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13210 (legacy record id), chs-m13840 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13996 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13210

Unique identifier UC136422

Legacy Identifier CHS-11443.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.3 in × 18.5 in at 300dpi
33.9 cm × 47.0 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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