California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Wintertime view of San Jose's Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, ca.1900

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Wintertime view of San Jose's Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, ca.1900

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Photograph of a wintertime view of San Jose's Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, ca.1900. The observatory is visible in the distance atop a snow-covered mountain. There are several buildings that make up the observatory, including two domed ones and several rectangular ones. There is a tree on the right side of the image stretching from the bottom to the top of the image. There are more trees lining the left side as well. The snow in the foreground is marked by footprints.

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Title Wintertime view of San Jose's Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, ca.1900

Subject Lick Observatory (subject), Observatories (lcsh), Observatories -- Lick Observatory (file heading), research facilities (adlf), Snow (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Jose (city or populated place), Santa Clara (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

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 1900

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

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-m10550

Identifier 10196 (accession number), CHS-10196 (call number), CHS-10196 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15679 (legacy record id), chs-m10550 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10698 (legacy record id), 1-100-21 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15679

Unique identifier UC143362

Legacy Identifier CHS-10196.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.3 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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