Alfred Beck Chapman, pioneer Los Angeles lawyer and District Attorney, ca.1875

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Photographic portrait of Alfred Beck Chapman, pioneer Los Angeles lawyer and District Attorney in the 1870's, ca.1875. Viewed from the chest up, in an oval cutout. He wears a three-piece suit with bow tie. He has a short white beard with moustache. He is bald on top but has short white hair above his ears. He looks straight ahead, but his body is turned slightly to his left.; "Alfred Beck Chapman was born in Greenboro, Alabama, Sept. 6, 1829. Graduated from West Point in 1854 and was afterward stationed in Florida, and later at Fort Leavenworth, Benicia, etc. Resigned from the army, studied law and was in practice here with Andrew Glassell for 20 years. He was city and district attorney several terms. In 1879 retired to his ranch in the Santa Anita grant. Married Miss Scott." -- caption.

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Title Alfred Beck Chapman, pioneer Los Angeles lawyer and District Attorney, ca.1875

Subject Chapman, Alfred Beck (subject), Portraits -- Ce-Cl (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1875

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm., 22 x 17 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 1875

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-m13506

Identifier 4865 (accession number), CHS-4865 (call number), CHS-4865 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13006 (legacy record id), chs-m13506 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13661 (legacy record id), 1-29-1 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13006

Unique identifier UC136151

Legacy Identifier CHS-4865.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.5 in × 16.4 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 41.8 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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