Engraving of a portrait of Harris Newmark, ca.1900-1910

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Photograph of an engraving of a portrait of Harris Newmark, ca.1900-1910. He can be seen from the chest up with his shoulders turned slightly to the left. He has a short beard and moustache and is bald on top with a fringe of short hair over his ears. He is wearing round wire spectacles. He is wearing a dark jacket with a button hole in the left lapel, over a light shirt with a high collar and long striped tie. Credit is given at the bottom as "Eng. by E.G. Williams & Bro. N.Y." Image is a half-tone print. Newmark lived from 1834-1916.; Newmark emigrated from West Prussian to Los Angeles in 1853, where he was a merchant and grocer. He was a charter member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. He was also one of the organizers of the first Los Angeles Board of Trade, one of the organizers of the Los Angeles Public Library, President of the Los Angeles congregation of B'nai B'rith. He was instrumental in the early years of the Southwest Museum and a charter member of the California Club. Newmark's business acumen and real estate holdings propelled him into the front ranks of civic leadership in turn-of-the century Los Angeles. As a patriarch of the city's Jewish community, he endowed Jewish charities and assisted the broader community. His landmark book, Sixty Years In Southern California: 1853-1913, is one of the best accounts of Los Angeles in the 19th century.

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Title Engraving of a portrait of Harris Newmark, ca.1900-1910

Subject Men (lcsh), Newmark (file heading), Newmark, Harris (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900/1910

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 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), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1900/1910

Creator E.G. Williams & Bro., New York (engraver)

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-m10535

Identifier 3187 (accession number), CHS-3187 (call number), CHS-3187 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15667 (legacy record id), chs-m10535 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13919 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15667

Unique identifier UC143181

Legacy Identifier CHS-3187.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.1 in × 17.0 in at 300dpi
33.3 cm × 43.2 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

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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