California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of Sonoma County Courth House, before April 18, 1906

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Exterior view of Sonoma County Courth House, before April 18, 1906

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Photograph of the exterior view of Sonoma County Court House, before April 18, 1906. A tall stairway leads up to the portico entrance to the building. The three-story building features decorative statues above the pediments on the roof. There's a dome tower near the center of the building. The yard surrounding the building is well manicured and decorated with an assortment of trees and plants. Several horse-drawn carriages are parked along the sidewalk in front of the building. Other buildings are visible in the background.; The building was completely destroyed during the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (April 18, 1906).

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Title Exterior view of Sonoma County Courth House, before April 18, 1906

Subject court houses (adlf), Courthouses (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Santa Rosa (city or populated place), Sonoma (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1906-04-18

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, 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 1906-04-18

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-m18779

Identifier 8346 (accession number), CHS-8346 (call number), CHS-8346 (filename), isla id: 1-208- (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18631 (legacy record id), chs-m18779 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18631

Unique identifier UC136007

Legacy Identifier CHS-8346.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
47.7 cm × 34.3 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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