California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Portrait of the photographer George Wharton James, ca.1890-1905

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Portrait of the photographer George Wharton James, ca.1890-1905

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Photographic portrait of the photographer George Wharton James, ca.1890-1905. He can be seen sitting looking straight ahead with his body is turned slightly to the left. He has dark wavy hair combed up and back from his face and a long dark beard with a mustache. He is wearing a buttoned double-breasted overcoat, and is probably in his 30's or 40's. Taken in a studio on a neutral background. James lived from 1858-1923.

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Title Portrait of the photographer George Wharton James, ca.1890-1905

Subject James, George Wharton, 1858-1923 (naf), Men (lcsh), Photographers (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1890/1905

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 17 x 13 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1890/1905

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-m16518

Identifier 3994 (accession number), CHS-3994 (call number), CHS-3994 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-16456 (legacy record id), chs-m16518 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16456

Unique identifier UC141439

Legacy Identifier CHS-3994.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 12.5 in × 16.9 in at 300dpi
31.9 cm × 42.9 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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