California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the Home Union Building and large department store after the 1906 earthquake in San Jose, April, 1906

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Exterior view of the Home Union Building and large department store after the 1906 earthquake in San Jose, April, 1906

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Photograph of the Home Union Building and large department store after the 1906 earthquake in San Jose, April, 1906. A wooden wagon with large wheels stands in the foreground with a man in a dark suit and hat standing just to the right. The building still stands, although heavily damaged, on the street behind with piles of debris scattered in front of it. The roof is collapsing at center and the outer walls of the second floor has crumbled, leaving the rooms exposed. The walls still stand on the first floor while dust rises from the debris in front of it.

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Title Exterior view of the Home Union Building and large department store after the 1906 earthquake in San Jose, April, 1906

Subject buildings (adlf), Earthquakes (lcsh), Santa Clara County -- San Jose -- Earthquakes (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Jose (city or populated place), Santa Clara (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1906-04

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 10 x 13 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 1906-04

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-m19384

Identifier 45511 (accession number), CHS-45511 (call number), CHS-45511 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19286 (legacy record id), chs-m19384 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19286

Unique identifier UC136907

Legacy Identifier CHS-45511.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.9 in × 16.7 in at 300dpi
53.2 cm × 42.6 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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