Sunset Club members in whiskers at a banquet "on the whiskers", ca.1900

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Photograph of Sunset Club members in whiskers at a banquet "on the whiskers", ca.1900. About fifty club members are posed behind a long banquet table that is covered in the remains of a large feast. Most of the men are wearing plaid or checked shirts and many of them are wearing fake beards. The room in which they are gathered is decorated by portraits on the walls and leafy vines on the ceiling. The banquet table has flowers and more vines.

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Title Sunset Club members in whiskers at a banquet "on the whiskers", ca.1900

Subject Associations, institutions, etc. (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Clubs (lcsh), Costume (lcsh), Dinners and dining (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Los Angeles -- Social organizations -- Sunset Club (file heading), Societies (lcsh), Sunset Club (corporate name)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1900

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-m4760

Identifier 11323 (accession number), CHS-11323 (call number), CHS-11323 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25131 (legacy record id), chs-m4760 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-4858 (legacy record id), 1-93- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25131

Unique identifier UC132222

Legacy Identifier CHS-11323.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.8 in × 15.7 in at 300dpi
50.3 cm × 40.0 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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