California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

The "laying of the cornerstone" ceremony for the Friday Morning Club on Figueroa Street, ca.1900-1910

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The "laying of the cornerstone" ceremony for the Friday Morning Club on Figueroa Street, ca.1900-1910

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Photograph of the "laying of the cornerstone" ceremony for the Friday Morning Club on Figueroa Street, ca.1900-1910. Crowds of men, women and children gather around the structure to watch the ceremony. Several children sit on top of the pergola-like structure. The structure was later demolished in 1922, to make way for the present club at 940 South Figueroa.

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Title The "laying of the cornerstone" ceremony for the Friday Morning Club on Figueroa Street, ca.1900-1910

Subject Associations, institutions, etc. (lcsh), Clubs (lcsh), Friday Morning Club (subject), recreational facilities (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Figueroa Street & 9th Street (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900/1910

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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

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-m17702

Identifier 6134 (accession number), CHS-6134 (call number), CHS-6134 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17690 (legacy record id), chs-m17702 (legacy record id), 1-3-31 (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17690

Unique identifier UC142830

Legacy Identifier CHS-6134.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.4 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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