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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Birdseye view of San Francisco, looking east from Hopkin's Art Institute, ca.1905
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Birdseye view of San Francisco, looking east from Hopkin's Art Institute, ca.1905
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Description
Photograph of a birdseye view of San Francisco, looking east from Hopkin's Art Institute, ca.1905. One tall skyscraper with decorative molding on top dominates the cityscape at center. To its right is a two-towered building with Arabesque tops on the towers. To the left is a blocky building with a square clock tower; smoke appears to be rising from this building. In the foreground are closely spaced houses.
Asset Metadata
Title
Birdseye view of San Francisco, looking east from Hopkin's Art Institute, ca.1905
Subject
cities
(adlf),
San Francisco County -- General views
(file heading),
Views
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
San Francisco
(city or populated place),
San Francisco
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1905
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
1905
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-m9710
Identifier
9962 (
accession number
), CHS-9962 (
call number
), CHS-9962 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-9959 (
legacy record id
), chs-m9710 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-9849 (
legacy record id
), 1-48- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
9959
Unique identifier
UC139917
Legacy Identifier
CHS-9962.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.0 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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