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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Clay Street Hill Railroad streetcar on the corner of Clay Street and Kearney Street with passengers, San Francisco, 1873
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Clay Street Hill Railroad streetcar on the corner of Clay Street and Kearney Street with passengers, San Francisco, 1873
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Description
Photograph of a Clay Street Hill Railroad streetcar on the corner of Clay Street and Kearney Street with passengers, San Francisco, 1873. The streetcar is pictured at center, full of passengers, on the first cable-car line ever built. Two men in suits stand to the right of it on the ground. A two-story building and wrought-iron fence are visible in the background. The ground appears unpaved. Several of the passengers are dressed very formally. Picture file card reads "Sitting on the front seat center, Mr. A.S. Hallidi(e?), the originator and builder of the first cable RR. His wife is seated next to him". Photoprint reads: "The first cable car in the world".
Asset Metadata
Title
Clay Street Hill Railroad streetcar on the corner of Clay Street and Kearney Street with passengers, San Francisco, 1873
Subject
Clay Street Hill Railroad Company
(subject),
Hallidie, A. S.
(subject),
Hallidie, Mrs.
(subject),
Street-railroads
(lcsh),
Transportation -- Street Railroads -- General -- Outside L.A. County
(file heading),
transportation features
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Clay Street & Kearney Street
(roadway),
San Francisco
(city or populated place),
San Francisco
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1873
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
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
1873
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12606
Identifier
7976 (
accession number
), CHS-7976 (
call number
), CHS-7976 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-12111 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12606 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12761 (
legacy record id
), 1-120-70 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
12111
Unique identifier
UC132078
Legacy Identifier
CHS-7976.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.3 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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