California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Exterior view of Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in Santa Clara, showing other buildings and a horse pen in the foreground, 1890-1899

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Exterior view of Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in Santa Clara, showing other buildings and a horse pen in the foreground, 1890-1899

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Photograph of an exterior view of Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in Santa Clara, showing other buildings and a horse pen in the foreground, 1890-1899. The three buildings of the Lick Observatory sit atop Mount Hamilton in the left background of the image, with the large dome of the telescopic refractor at the right of the group. An unpaved road winds through the foreground to the observatory, passing the low, clabpboard buildings that sit amidst the vegetation on the fore-and centergrounds. A horse is penned in the center of the image, while an automobile drives down the road to its left. Other buildings are visible on the horizon in the right of the image.

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Title Exterior view of Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in Santa Clara, showing other buildings and a horse pen in the foreground, 1890-1899

Subject Lick Observatory (subject), Observatories (lcsh), Observatories -- Lick Observatory (file heading), research facilities (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Santa Clara (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1890/1899

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 13 x 21 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 1890/1899

Creator Moore, G.E. (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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10554

Identifier 31268 (accession number), CHS-31268 (call number), CHS-31268 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13701 (legacy record id), chs-m10554 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-10702 (legacy record id), 1-100-24 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13701

Unique identifier UC143326

Legacy Identifier CHS-31268.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.6 in × 14.2 in at 300dpi
50.0 cm × 36.1 cm at 300dpi

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Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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