Painting of a balloon trip to Mount Lowe as envisioned by Professor Thaddeus S.C. Lowe, ca.1895-1910

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Photograph of a painting by Homer A. Hamer of a balloon trip to Mount Lowe as envisioned by Professor Thaddeus S.C. Lowe from the prospectus, ca.1895-1910. Eight passengers on a ship suspended from a huge flag festooned balloon look down on the patchwork agricultural plots in the valley below as the vehicle approaches the observatory atop Mount Lowe. The Mount Lowe Railway is also depicted. The caption reads "Painted by Homer A. Hamer, landscape artist, A1257, 406 Henne Bldg. - Los Angeles, Cal."

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Title Painting of a balloon trip to Mount Lowe as envisioned by Professor Thaddeus S.C. Lowe, ca.1895-1910

Subject Aeronautics (lcsh), agricultural sites (adlf), Art (lcsh), Astronomical observatories (lcsh), Balloons (lcsh), Hamer, Homer A. (subject), Los Angeles County -- Altadena -- Mt. Lowe (file heading), Lowe, Professor Thaddeus S.C. (subject), Lowe, Thaddeus (subject), Mountains (lcsh), Transportation -- Air -- Balloons (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Altadena (city or populated place), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), mountains: Mount Lowe (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1895/1910

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegative, glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 25 x 20 cm., 26 x 21 cm., 25 x 16 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), glass plate negatives (format), negatives (photographic) (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 1895/1910

Creator Hamer, Homer A. (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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13008

Identifier 2401 (accession number), CHS-2401 (call number), CHS-2401 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12543 (legacy record id), chs-m13008 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-5310 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13160 (legacy record id), 1-102-2 (microfiche number), 1-38-15 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12543

Unique identifier UC133710

Legacy Identifier CHS-2401.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 12.4 in × 19.3 in at 300dpi
31.6 cm × 49.1 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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