Etching of a portrait of Hernando Cortes, [s.d.]

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Photograph of an etching of a portrait of Hernando Cortes, [s.d.]. A man with drooping eyes, curly hair and a thick beard and moustache stares toward the foreground. He raises a finger with one hand, and clenches with the other. He is wearing a fur-trimmed coat and a vested undergarment. Beneath him the words "Ferdinand Cortez, Espagnol" can be seen in a rectangle.

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Title Etching of a portrait of Hernando Cortes, [s.d.]

Subject Cortes, Hernando (subject), Portraits -- Cortes, Hernando (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photoprints, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm., 24 x 17 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)

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-m13539

Identifier 42496 (accession number), CHS-42496 (call number), CHS-42496 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13038 (legacy record id), chs-m13539 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13694 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13038

Unique identifier UC136979

Legacy Identifier CHS-42496.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.7 in × 25.5 in at 300dpi
45.1 cm × 64.9 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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