Portrait of Captain Cornelius Jensen, ca.1860-1880

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Photographic portrait of Captain Cornelius Jensen, ca.1860-1880. He can be seen from the chest up with his shoulders facing straight ahead. His eyes are turned to the left, and he is wearing a three-piece suit with dark bow tie. He has a white beard and sideburns with no moustache. His wavy graying hair is combed to the right. He was a pioneer in 1848.; Danish sea-captain Cornelius Jensen's crew had abandoned ship in San Francisco for the gold fields in 1848. By 1850, he had met Ygnacio Alvarado and Ygnacio Palomares who had driven cattle north to sell to hungry miners. Jensen moved south and married Mercedes, Alvarado's daughter and the couple eventually settled in Riverside, California, in a house, built by Chinese, Indian, and Mexican labor, combinining the typical Californio style with elements Jensen remembered from his boyhood home on the Isle of Sylt. Jensen was the grandfather of Miss Viola J. Pittam, Riverside, California.

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Title Portrait of Captain Cornelius Jensen, ca.1860-1880

Subject Cornelius, Jensen, Captain (subject), Men (lcsh), Portraits -- J (file heading), Ship captains (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Riverside (counties), San Bernardino (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1860/1880

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm. (aacr2), 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 1860/1880

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-m17262

Identifier 4989 (accession number), CHS-4989 (call number), CHS-4989 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17264 (legacy record id), chs-m17262 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13869 (legacy record id), 1-45- (microfiche number), 1-90-310 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17264

Unique identifier UC142153

Legacy Identifier CHS-4989.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 12.9 in × 16.8 in at 300dpi
32.8 cm × 42.8 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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