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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Map showing the west coast of the United States from California to Oregon from United States Coast Survey of 1849-1851
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Map showing the west coast of the United States from California to Oregon from United States Coast Survey of 1849-1851
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Description
Photograph of a map showing the west coast of the United States from California to Oregon from United States Coast Survey of 1849-1851. Transcription reads: "U.S. coast survey. A.D. Bache, superintendent. Sketch J, showing the progress of the survey of the western coast, 1849-51, scale 1/7,000,000. Notes: reconnaisances have been made of the coast from southern boundary to mouth of the Columbia River; preliminary surveys have been made of mouth of the Columbia River, Ewing Harbor, Humboldt Bay, Trinidad Bay, Bay of Monterey and San Diego Bay; surveys have been made for light house sites at Point Loma, San Diego Bay, Point Conception, Point Pinos, Bay of Monterey, Fort Point and Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, Humboldt Bay, and Cape Hancock mouth of the Columbia River; surveys of the northern and southern shores of the entrance San Francisco and of Mare Island & Straits have been made for military and naval purposes. For details of these surveys, see succeeding sketches. A signifies astronomical station. M do Magnetic Station. T do Tidal Station. California, Pacific Ocean".
Asset Metadata
Title
Map showing the west coast of the United States from California to Oregon from United States Coast Survey of 1849-1851
Subject
coasts
(lcsh),
Maps -- California
(file heading),
regions
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Oregon
(states),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1849/1851
Type
images
,
maps
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
(aacr2),
maps
(aat),
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
1849/1851
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
(photographer)
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-m13231
Identifier
8308 (
accession number
), CHS-8308 (
call number
), CHS-8308 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-12740 (
legacy record id
), chs-m13231 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-13384 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
12740
Unique identifier
UC136026
Legacy Identifier
CHS-8308.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
14.0 in × 17.4 in at 300dpi
35.5 cm × 44.2 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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