California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Man sitting in a grassy field looking toward Mission Carmel (San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo) in Monterey, California, ca.1890-1897

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Man sitting in a grassy field looking toward Mission Carmel (San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo) in Monterey, California, ca.1890-1897

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Photograph of a man sitting in a grassy field on a knoll looking toward Mission Carmel (San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo) in Monterey, California, ca.1890-1897. He is wearing a bowler hat. The dome of the mission and peak of the church are both topped with a cross. At left is the Carmel River, Bay, and ancient ruins.

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Title Man sitting in a grassy field looking toward Mission Carmel (San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo) in Monterey, California, ca.1890-1897

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1890/1897

Subject Carmel Mission (subject), Mission Carmel (subject), Mission Carmel -- San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo (file heading), Missions -- Mission Carmel (San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo) (subject), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Monterey (city or populated place), Monterey (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1890/1897

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 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)

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-m15034

Identifier 1457 (accession number), CHS-1457 (call number), CHS-1457 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13783 (legacy record id), chs-m15034 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14075 (legacy record id), 1-127-4 (microfiche number), 1-129-4 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13783

Unique identifier UC143403

Legacy Identifier CHS-1457.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
43.4 cm × 33.4 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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