California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View looking down on a ceremony for the laying of the corner stone of the Chamber of Commerce building, March 28, 1903

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View looking down on a ceremony for the laying of the corner stone of the Chamber of Commerce building, March 28, 1903

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Photograph of a view looking down on a ceremony for the laying of the corner stone of the Chamber of Commerce building, March 28, 1903. Crowds of people sit in chairs arranged in semi-circular rows surrounding the stage. At left are crowds of people in uniform. A man stands on a small stage (lower center) holding out a piece of paper towards the crowd. The people are well dressed and only a few are not wearing hats.

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Title View looking down on a ceremony for the laying of the corner stone of the Chamber of Commerce building, March 28, 1903

Subject commercial sites (adlf), Corner stones, Laying of (lcsh), Festivals and parades -- General (file heading), Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1903-03-28

Type images

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

Date Created 1903-03-28

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10501

Identifier 6144 (accession number), CHS-6144 (call number), CHS-6144 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15635 (legacy record id), chs-m10501 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10649 (legacy record id), 1-2-79 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15635

Unique identifier UC143093

Legacy Identifier CHS-6144.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.8 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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