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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Interior view of an American Expeditionary Force mess hall, ca.1915
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Interior view of an American Expeditionary Force mess hall, ca.1915
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Description
Photograph of an interior view of an American Expeditionary Force mess hall, ca.1915. The hall is a long wooden structure with three long tables running the length of it. There are many uniformed soldiers seated and standing around the table at center, looking at the camera. Square windows line the sides of the building, and there is a stove with a pipe reaching to the ceiling in the foreground at right. There are electric lights hung from the ceiling and decorated with American flags.
Asset Metadata
Title
Interior view of an American Expeditionary Force mess hall, ca.1915
Subject
Dinners and dining
(lcsh),
Military
(lcsh),
military areas
(adlf),
Soldiers
(lcsh),
U.S. History -- World War I -- American Expeditionary Force
(file heading),
War
(lcsh),
World War, 1914-1918
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Temporal Subject
1915
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photoprints, b&w ; 13 x 18 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
1915
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-m12812
Identifier
11628 (
accession number
), CHS-11628 (
call number
), CHS-11628 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-12277 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12812 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12964 (
legacy record id
), 1-233- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
12277
Unique identifier
UC132359
Legacy Identifier
CHS-11628.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.0 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
45.7 cm × 33.3 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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