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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Panoramic view of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake, viewed from Nob Hill, 1906
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Panoramic view of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake, viewed from Nob Hill, 1906
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Description
Photograph of a panoramic view of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake, viewed from Nob Hill, 1906. A tall portion of a brick building leans over the foreground on the right while the ruins of the fallen city lies at its base. Electrical poles line the street which separates the rubble in the foreground from the standing walls of the large buildings at center. Compares to CHS-43390.
Asset Metadata
Title
Panoramic view of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake, viewed from Nob Hill, 1906
Subject
cities
(adlf),
Earthquakes
(lcsh),
Fires
(lcsh),
San Francisco -- Earthquake (1906) -- #1 (Panoramas)
(file heading),
San Francisco County -- San Francisco Earthquake -- Panoramas
(file heading),
Views
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
San Francisco
(city or populated place),
San Francisco
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1906
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm.
(aacr2),
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
1906
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
(photographer)
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-m9726
Identifier
43942 (
accession number
), CHS-43942 (
call number
), CHS-43942 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-9974 (
legacy record id
), chs-m9726 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-9865 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
), 36 (
unidentified no.
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
9974
Unique identifier
UC139550
Legacy Identifier
CHS-43942.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.2 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
51.4 cm × 41.1 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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