California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Wolfe Store near Temecula, California, ca.1887

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Wolfe Store near Temecula, California, ca.1887

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Photograph of Wolfe Store near Temecula, California, ca.1887. Also was Butterfield Overland Mail Station on the Pauba Ranch headquarters in Old Temecula. Built 1859. Louis Wolfe is standing on the covered porch with his hand on a post. Another man is sitting on the porch at Wolfe's left. To Wolfe's right another man is stepping up onto the porch with a bucket in his hand and a sack under his arm. A picket fence surrounds a yard at left. A wood rail fence is visible at right. This store is where Alesandro sold his violin while Ramona, The Indian made famous in the novel of the same name by Helen Hunt Jackson, waited in the cemetery.

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Title Wolfe Store near Temecula, California, ca.1887

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

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1887

Subject commercial sites (adlf), Indians -- Ramona -- Subjects (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885 (naf), Ramona (subject), Stores, Retail (lcsh), Wolfe, Louis. (naf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1887

Type images

Format 3 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-m14640

Identifier 751 (accession number), CHS-751 (call number), CHS-751 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15278 (legacy record id), chs-m14640 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14072 (legacy record id), 1-188- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15278

Unique identifier UC143070

Legacy Identifier CHS-751.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.5 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
47.0 cm × 33.8 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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