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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of the parapet of Adolph Sutro's grounds, San Francisco, ca.1890
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View of the parapet of Adolph Sutro's grounds, San Francisco, ca.1890
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Description
Photograph of aview of the parapet of Adolph Sutro's grounds, San Francisco, ca.1890. The picture is dominated by a steep cliff, into which a flight of stairs has been cut. Standing on these steps are several women in black dresses. On top of the cliff is a low stone wall that resembles battlements on a castle, and more people can be seen standing behind it. Further behind the wall is a building with a flat roof, and on the left side of this building is a tower, complete with several flights of stairs reaching the top platform. On the left side of the cliff, a wrought-iron fence runs from the top of the cliff steps to the edge of another building at the extreme left of the picture. Below, statues are arranged sporadically on pedestals made from the cliff rock, as well as on the flat clearing farther down.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of the parapet of Adolph Sutro's grounds, San Francisco, ca.1890
Subject
buildings
(adlf),
Cliff House
(subject),
Ocean
(lcsh),
Rocks
(lcsh),
San Francisco County -- Architecture -- Cliff houses and seal rocks
(file heading),
Sculpture
(lcsh),
Sutro, Adolph
(personal name)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
San Francisco
(city or populated place),
San Francisco
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1890
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegatives, 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
1890
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9041
Identifier
9857; 9857-A (
accession number
), CHS-9857 (
call number
), CHS-9857-A (
call number
), CHS-9857-A (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-8944 (
legacy record id
), chs-m9041 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-9179 (
legacy record id
), 1-48- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
8944
Unique identifier
UC139479
Legacy Identifier
CHS-9857-A.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.9 in × 12.3 in at 300dpi
48.0 cm × 31.3 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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