California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Man speaking on a phone at Terminal Island Federal Prison, [s.d.]

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Man speaking on a phone at Terminal Island Federal Prison, [s.d.]

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Photograph of man speaking on a phone at Terminal Island Federal Prison, [s.d.]. A man stands, at left, speaking on a mounted telephone. Opposite the telephone, an alarm device is also mounted on the wall. The man is wearing a dark colored uniform with a chevron on his right sleeve. Beside him, are what appear to be two fuse panels - the larger one is on top, while the smaller one is visible on the bottom. At center, a small table stands with a telephone resting on it.

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Title Man speaking on a phone at Terminal Island Federal Prison, [s.d.]

Subject correctional facilities (adlf), Prisons (lcsh), Prisons--Officials and employees (lcsh), Telephone (lcsh), Terminal Island Federal Prison (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 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)

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-m30456

Identifier 37194 (accession number), CHS-37194 (call number), CHS-37194 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24536 (legacy record id), chs-m30456 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24536

Unique identifier UC132726

Legacy Identifier CHS-37194.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.5 in × 16.6 in at 300dpi
34.3 cm × 42.3 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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