California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Drawing of the Presidio of San Francisco, ca.1850

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Drawing of the Presidio of San Francisco, ca.1850

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Photograph of a drawing of the Presidio of San Francisco, ca.1850. Troops muster in the square surrounded by barracks and other buildings below a pole flying the American flag. Cattle graze outside the fence surrounding the fort. A man on horseback wields a whip in the foreground.

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Title Drawing of the Presidio of San Francisco, ca.1850

Subject Fortification (lcsh), fortifications (adlf), San Francisco County -- Presidio (file heading), The Presidio (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1850

Type images

Format 1 Photoprint : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. (aacr2), art (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 1850

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

Contributor Mrs. Forbes (provenance)

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9692

Identifier 4944 (accession number), CHS-4944 (call number), CHS-4944 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9941 (legacy record id), chs-m9692 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-9831 (legacy record id), 1-48- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9941

Unique identifier UC139859

Legacy Identifier CHS-4944.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 35.1 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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