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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Post Office Clerks' float in the Fiesta de Los Angeles Parade, ca.1909
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Post Office Clerks' float in the Fiesta de Los Angeles Parade, ca.1909
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Description
Photograph of La Fiesta de Los Angeles celebration, ca.1909. Two darkly colored horses pull a carriage covered in some sort of plant life. Women wearing Victorian style dresses with large hats sit and stand on top while a man with a tall hat holds the reins up front. A sign in the center reads "Floral Parade...Mystic Shrine Los Angeles..." A larger sign to the right reads "Post Office Clerks". A building with the address 1516 is visible behind the horses on the left while a similar building is under construction on the right.
Asset Metadata
Title
Post Office Clerks' float in the Fiesta de Los Angeles Parade, ca.1909
Subject
buildings
(adlf),
Festivals and parades -- La Fiesta -- Undated
(file heading),
Parades
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1909
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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
1909
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-m11063
Identifier
40482 (
accession number
), CHS-40482 (
call number
), CHS-40482 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-10489 (
legacy record id
), chs-m11063 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-11213 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
10489
Unique identifier
UC140438
Legacy Identifier
CHS-40482.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.2 in × 16.4 in at 300dpi
51.5 cm × 41.6 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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