California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Detail of a drawing by Edwin A. Sherman depicting the raising of an American flag in Yerba Buena, (later known as San Francisco), 1846

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Detail of a drawing by Edwin A. Sherman depicting the raising of an American flag in Yerba Buena, (later known as San Francisco), 1846

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Photograph of a detail of a drawing by Edwin A. Sherman depicting the raising of an American flag in Yerba Buena (later known as San Francisco), 1846. The flag is towards the left of the picture, and around it are four rows of soldiers in formation. An officer stands at the center of the formations, gesturing towards the flag. In the bay, there is a three-mast ship, the guns of which have just been fired, indicated by the two puffs of smoke near the hull. There are four smaller boats full of men headed from the main ship towards the shore. Behind the soldiers on the left are two barracks, and in the foreground there are seven men, two near a beached boat, and one with his hat off in celebration. Mountains fill the background.

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Title Detail of a drawing by Edwin A. Sherman depicting the raising of an American flag in Yerba Buena, (later known as San Francisco), 1846

Subject buildings (lcsh), Flags (lcsh), Harbors (adlf), San Francisco County -- Waterfront (file heading), ships (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1846

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), 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 1846

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer), Sherman, Edwin A. (illustrator)

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-m9716

Identifier 9696 (accession number), CHS-9696 (call number), CHS-9696 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9965 (legacy record id), chs-m9716 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-9855 (legacy record id), 1-48- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9965

Unique identifier UC139701

Legacy Identifier CHS-9696.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.0 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
50.8 cm × 40.7 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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