California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of San Jose following the 1906 earthquake, showing soldiers in a camp in a park under martial law, 1906

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View of San Jose following the 1906 earthquake, showing soldiers in a camp in a park under martial law, 1906

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Photograph of a view of San Jose following the 1906 earthquake, showing soldiers in a camp in a park under martial law, 1906. Many soldiers in tall boots, dark jackets and hats stand in a grassy yard at center with lightly-colored tents standing on the left along a row of trees. Others stand on the right in the center of a road that runs in the foreground. More tents stand in a row on the right with another group of soldiers in the background behind them.

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Title View of San Jose following the 1906 earthquake, showing soldiers in a camp in a park under martial law, 1906

Subject Armed Forces (lcsh), camps (adlf), Earthquakes (lcsh), Martial law (lcsh), Military (lcsh), Parks (lcsh), Santa Clara County -- San Jose -- Earthquakes (file heading), Tents (lcsh), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Jose (city or populated place), Santa Clara (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1906

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 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-m9868

Identifier 45502 (accession number), CHS-45502 (call number), CHS-45502 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10109 (legacy record id), chs-m9868 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10006 (legacy record id), USC (project), 248 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10109

Unique identifier UC140192

Legacy Identifier CHS-45502.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.7 in × 16.5 in at 300dpi
52.8 cm × 42.1 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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