View of the Pacific Ocean and sky from the beach, California, ca.1900-1960

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Photograph of a view of the Pacific Ocean and sky from the beach, California, ca.1900-1960. A wave about three-feet tall is making its way to the shore while a previous wave dissipates. White foam water bubbles near the shore. Another wave is forming about several yards out. Scattered clouds loom in the sky.

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Title View of the Pacific Ocean and sky from the beach, California, ca.1900-1960

Subject Beaches (adlf), Natural features -- Oceans -- Pacific (file heading), Ocean (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), oceans: Pacific Ocean (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900/1960

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1900/1960

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17539

Identifier 5951 (accession number), CHS-5951 (call number), CHS-5951 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17531 (legacy record id), chs-m17539 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14246 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17531

Unique identifier UC142689

Legacy Identifier CHS-5951.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.4 in × 15.2 in at 300dpi
49.4 cm × 38.6 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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