Portrait of Don Francisco Garcia, the Mexican courier between the U.S. and the City of Mexico, at 115 years of age, ca.1890

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Photograph of Don Francisco Garcia of Los Angeles, the Mexican courier between the U.S. and the City of Mexico, at 115 years of age, ca.1890. He can be seen from the waist up sitting facing to the left. He has a beard and mustache. He is wearing a hat with braiding around the crown and a pin(?) on the left side, and a three-piece suit with a cravat-type tie. A watch fob hangs from the third button down on his vest. He died at age 117.

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Title Portrait of Don Francisco Garcia, the Mexican courier between the U.S. and the City of Mexico, at 115 years of age, ca.1890

Subject Garcia, Francisco (subject), Portraits -- G (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1890

Type images

Format 4 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 18 x 13 cm., 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1890

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-m13652

Identifier 229 (accession number), CHS-229 (call number), CHS-229 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13135 (legacy record id), chs-m13652 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13807 (legacy record id), 1-90-226 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13135

Unique identifier UC136625

Legacy Identifier CHS-229.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.2 in × 18.4 in at 300dpi
36.2 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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