California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Great fire consuming the Palace and Grand Hotels after the earthquake, San Francisco, April 18, 1906

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Great fire consuming the Palace and Grand Hotels after the earthquake, San Francisco, April 18, 1906

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Photograph of the great fire consuming the Palace and Grand Hotels after the earthquake, San Francisco, April 18, 1906. Police officers stand near a horse on the right sidewalk of a narrow street in the foreground. Tall buildings shade the street while the bright flames devour the two large hotels on the intersecting street at center. Although the buildings still stand, the windows are filled with flames and clouds of smoke encircle them.; Copyright 1906, by J.D.C. Published by J.D. Cardinell, Oakland, Calif.

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Title Great fire consuming the Palace and Grand Hotels after the earthquake, San Francisco, April 18, 1906

Subject buildings (adlf), Earthquakes (lcsh), Fires (lcsh), San Francisco County -- San Francisco Earthquake (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Francisco (city or populated place), San Francisco (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1906-04-18

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w (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 1906-04-18

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-m17647

Identifier 43955 (accession number), CHS-43955 (call number), CHS-43955 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17636 (legacy record id), chs-m17647 (legacy record id), USC (project), 1 (unidentified no.), CHS-EQUA-301 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17636

Unique identifier UC142263

Legacy Identifier CHS-43955.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 25.7 in × 16.9 in at 300dpi
65.4 cm × 43.0 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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