California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Portrait of John Bell, an old hermit of Pismo Beach, San Luis Obispo County, California, ca.1905

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Portrait of John Bell, an old hermit of Pismo Beach, San Luis Obispo County, California, ca.1905

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Photographic portrait of John Bell, an old hermit of Pismo Beach, San Luis Obispo County, California, ca.1905. A bearded man in dusty slacks and a vest is visible standing outside of a small shack on the dunes. A shovel is to the left, a broom to the right.

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Title Portrait of John Bell, an old hermit of Pismo Beach, San Luis Obispo County, California, ca.1905

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1905

Subject Beaches (lcsh), Beaches (adlf), Bell, John (subject), San Luis Obispo County -- General (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Luis Obispo (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1905

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 8 x 10 in. (aacr2), 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-m15027

Identifier 9870 (accession number), CHS-9870 (call number), CHS-9870 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13775 (legacy record id), chs-m15027 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14318 (legacy record id), 1-70-57 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13775

Unique identifier UC143316

Legacy Identifier CHS-9870.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.1 in × 20.6 in at 300dpi
40.9 cm × 52.4 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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