California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Panoramic view of Cahuenga Pass, looking north from Melrose, Hollywood, ca.1915

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Panoramic view of Cahuenga Pass, looking north from Melrose, Hollywood, ca.1915

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Photograph of a panoramic view of Cahuenga Pass, looking north from Melrose, Hollywood, ca.1915. Dry grass and shrubs cover the land in the foreground. To the right is a wheat(?) field encompassing a large portion of the pass. Trees and mountains are visible in the distance.; "The eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains is a discordant topographic and geologic block that is separated from the rest of the Santa Monica Mountains by Cahuenga Pass and the Cahuenga fault." -- unknown author.

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Title Panoramic view of Cahuenga Pass, looking north from Melrose, Hollywood, ca.1915

Subject gaps (adlf), Los Angeles -- Hollywood -- General views -- Panoramas (1906-1915) (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Cahuenga Pass (geographic subject), California (states), Hollywood (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1915

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1915

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-m17435

Identifier 5662 (accession number), CHS-5662 (call number), CHS-5662 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17431 (legacy record id), chs-m17435 (legacy record id), 1-31-52 (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17431

Unique identifier UC142363

Legacy Identifier CHS-5662.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.9 in × 15.0 in at 300dpi
48.0 cm × 38.3 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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