Invitation to the funeral for Henry Mellus, mayor of Los Angeles, 1860

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Photograph of an invitation to the funeral for Henry Mellus, mayor of Los Angeles, 1860. The letter is written mostly in script and there is a line drawing of a Greek pot in the upper left corner. The text of the letter reads as follows: "The funeral of the Hon. Henry Mellus, Mayor of this city, will take place on Friday the 28th instant. The procession will leave his residence for the Parish Church and cemetery at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Your attendance is solicited. Mrs. M. A. Mellus Francis Mellus James H. Lander Los Angeles, Dec. 27, 1860".

Asset Metadata

Title Invitation to the funeral for Henry Mellus, mayor of Los Angeles, 1860

Subject Funeral rites and ceremonies (lcsh), Mayors (lcsh), Mellus, Henry (subject), Portraits -- Mellus (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1860

Type images, physical objects

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

Date Created 1860

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-m19332

Identifier 11166 (accession number), CHS-11166 (call number), CHS-11166 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19237 (legacy record id), chs-m19332 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13902 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19237

Unique identifier UC136670

Legacy Identifier CHS-11166.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.2 in × 18.5 in at 300dpi
33.5 cm × 46.9 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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