Portrait of the Los Angeles pioneer, William Wolfskill, shown in a half-tone print, ca.1831

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Photograph of a portrait of the Los Angeles pioneer, William Wolfskill, shown in a half-tone print, ca.1831. From the chest up. In an oval cutout. His hair is parted on his left. He has long sideburns. He is wearing a 3-piece suit.; "A trapper from Kentucky, he was married into the Lugo family. In 1841 he planted an orange orchard of two acres where the Southern Pacific station stands at Fifth and Alameda, [Los Angeles]. 20 years later he had 100 acres of oranges and was the father of that industry in California. -- Before locating in Los Angeles he traded with the Indians. His wife was Magdalena Lugo, daughter of Jose Ygnacio Lugo of Santa Barbara, brother of Anonia Maria Lugo."

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Title Portrait of the Los Angeles pioneer, William Wolfskill, shown in a half-tone print, ca.1831

Subject Farmers (lcsh), Men (lcsh), Wolfskill (file heading), Wolfskill, William (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1831

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegatives, photoprint, b&w ; 25 x 20 cm., 18 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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 1831

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-m13839

Identifier 1765 (accession number), CHS-1765 (call number), CHS-1765 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13326 (legacy record id), chs-m13839 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13995 (legacy record id), 1-90-724 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13326

Unique identifier UC136855

Legacy Identifier CHS-1765.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 12.4 in × 16.7 in at 300dpi
31.5 cm × 42.6 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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