California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior of an unidentified blacksmith's shop, possibly in Altadena, ca.1880

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Exterior of an unidentified blacksmith's shop, possibly in Altadena, ca.1880

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Photograph of the exterior of an unidentified blacksmith's shop, possibly in Altadena, ca.1880. Two horses with plowing harnesses on stand in the foreground facing away from the camera and in towards the open barn of the blacksmith's shop, where a man can be partially seen. A sign on top of the wooden barn reads "Blacksmithing. Horseshoeing". A road can be seen in the right background.

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Title Exterior of an unidentified blacksmith's shop, possibly in Altadena, ca.1880

Subject Blacksmithing (lcsh), commercial sites (adlf), Industry -- Blacksmithing (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Altadena (city or populated place), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1880

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 10 x 16 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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 1880

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-m11139

Identifier 8232 (accession number), CHS-8232 (call number), CHS-8232 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10564 (legacy record id), chs-m11139 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-11289 (legacy record id), 1-156- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10564

Unique identifier UC140622

Legacy Identifier CHS-8232.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 12.4 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 31.7 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

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