California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Lithograph from Norton's "Story of California" showing a view of San Francisco from the bay, 1847

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Lithograph from Norton's "Story of California" showing a view of San Francisco from the bay, 1847

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Photograph of a lithograph from Norton's "Story of California" showing a view of San Francisco from the bay, 1847. The bay is in the foreground, and there are several boats on it, including a row boat at center occupied by a single person. San Francisco is visible in the background on the hills surrounding the bay; it is composed of small white buildings in a group. More mountains rise in the distance. Norton's book was published in 1913 by A.C. McClury & Co., Chicago.

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Title Lithograph from Norton's "Story of California" showing a view of San Francisco from the bay, 1847

Subject bays (adlf), Boats and boating (lcsh), buildings (lcsh), Custom House (subject), San Francisco County -- Waterfront (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1847

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (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 1847

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9713

Identifier 9731 (accession number), CHS-9731 (call number), CHS-9731 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9962 (legacy record id), chs-m9713 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-9852 (legacy record id), 1-48- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9962

Unique identifier UC139976

Legacy Identifier CHS-9731.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.9 in × 11.3 in at 300dpi
43.0 cm × 28.7 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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