California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Entrance to the San Pedro Harbor from Dead Man's Island looking north toward Pt. Fermin, ca.1900

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Entrance to the San Pedro Harbor from Dead Man's Island looking north toward Pt. Fermin, ca.1900

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Photograph of the entrance to the San Pedro Harbor from Dead Man's Island looking north toward Pt. Fermin, ca.1900. A ship to the left, and the beginnings of the breakwater are visible.

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Title Entrance to the San Pedro Harbor from Dead Man's Island looking north toward Pt. Fermin, ca.1900

Subject Breakwaters (adlf), Breakwaters -- Design and construction (lcsh), Harbors (lcsh), Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- Engineering -- Breakwater (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1900

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

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-m17776

Identifier 6241 (accession number), CHS-6241 (call number), CHS-6241 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17762 (legacy record id), chs-m17776 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14364 (legacy record id), 1-50-173 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17762

Unique identifier UC142805

Legacy Identifier CHS-6241.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.9 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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