California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Crystal Springs Lake, San Mateo County, 1937

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View of Crystal Springs Lake, San Mateo County, 1937

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Photograph of a view of Crystal Springs Lake, San Mateo County, 1937. At right, an elevated road wends along the hillside, while at left the lake is visible. Two houses can be seen at the apex of the hill at right. This lake was the water supply for San Francisco where the Hetch Hetchy line emptied. Three of the camp sites of the Portola expedition were nearby.

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Title View of Crystal Springs Lake, San Mateo County, 1937

Subject Lakes (adlf), San Mateo County -- General (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Mateo (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1937

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), 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 1937

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-m19001

Identifier 12162 (accession number), CHS-12162 (call number), CHS-12162 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18917 (legacy record id), chs-m19001 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14333 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18917

Unique identifier UC135925

Legacy Identifier CHS-12162.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.3 in × 16.5 in at 300dpi
51.6 cm × 41.9 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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