California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Grand Marshall Walter S. Wright on horseback at the Pasadena Tournament of Roses, 1909

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Grand Marshall Walter S. Wright on horseback at the Pasadena Tournament of Roses, 1909

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Photograph of Grand Marshall Walter S. Wright on horseback at the Pasadena Tournament of Roses, 1909. The Grand Marshall and his horse are at center and are facing to the left. The horse is a dark animal with rose-covered tack decorating its body. Wright is dressed in a dark uniform with a dark jacket that bears a large badge on the sleeve. Wright is also wearing a Navy officer-style hat. He has a short dark goatee and mustache. The horse is standing in the middle of a tree- and utility pole-lined dirt street.

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Title Grand Marshall Walter S. Wright on horseback at the Pasadena Tournament of Roses, 1909

Subject Festivals and parades -- Rose Parade -- General (file heading), Parades (lcsh), roadways (adlf), Tournament of Roses (subject), Wright, Walter S. (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1909

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 17 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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11231

Identifier 11757 (accession number), CHS-11757 (call number), CHS-11757 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10654 (legacy record id), chs-m11231 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-11381 (legacy record id), 1-37-204 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10654

Unique identifier UC140538

Legacy Identifier CHS-11757.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.0 in × 13.0 in at 300dpi
45.8 cm × 33.1 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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