California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

A.F. Harmer's painting "Traveling in the Coast Range in the 40's" depicting a Mexican-American man on horseback in the mountains, ca.1850

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A.F. Harmer's painting "Traveling in the Coast Range in the 40's" depicting a Mexican-American man on horseback in the mountains, ca.1850

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Photograph of A.F. Harmer's painting "Traveling in the Coast Range in the 40's" depicting a Mexican-American man on horseback in the mountains, ca.1850. A man in bolero dress is shown in profile riding his horse at center. He waves his hat in front of him, exposing his kercheif. A little girl, also on the horse, clutches him tightly around the waist. Mountains fill the background behind them.

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Title A.F. Harmer's painting "Traveling in the Coast Range in the 40's" depicting a Mexican-American man on horseback in the mountains, ca.1850

Subject Californios -- Illustrations (file heading), Harmer, A. F. (subject), Horsemanship (lcsh), Mexican Americans (lcsh), Mountains (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1850

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 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 1850

Creator Harmer, A.F. (artist)

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-m10050

Identifier 8539 (accession number), CHS-8539 (call number), CHS-8539 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10283 (legacy record id), chs-m10050 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10190 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10283

Unique identifier UC140543

Legacy Identifier CHS-8539.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 35.0 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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