California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Interior view of the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, ca.1920

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Interior view of the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, ca.1920

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Photograph of an interior view of the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, ca.1920. The tiled floor holds several rows of glass cases containing mostly skeletal remains of prehistoric animals. Several large standing skeletons of animals stand at center with their heads reaching through an opening above them which reveals the second floor or displays. Men in dark suits and hats stand in the background on the right with large arching windows behind them.

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Title Interior view of the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, ca.1920

Subject Animals -- Prehistoric (file heading), Animals, Fossil (lcsh), Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History (subject), museum buildings (adlf), Museums (lcsh), Skeletons (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1920

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 in. (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 1920

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-m9678

Identifier 40234 (accession number), CHS-40234 (call number), CHS-40234 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9927 (legacy record id), chs-m9678 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-9817 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9927

Unique identifier UC139689

Legacy Identifier CHS-40234.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.6 in × 15.9 in at 300dpi
52.4 cm × 40.5 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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