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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Birdseye view of Alhambra, showing homesteads and orchards, ca.1883
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Birdseye view of Alhambra, showing homesteads and orchards, ca.1883
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Description
Photograph of a birdseye view of Alhambra, showing homesteads and orchards, ca.1883. Three homes are shown spaced out across a grid of orchard-land which is delineated by lines of trees. The frontmost home is shown at left, with a set of steps leading to its raised porch. The second home is farther back and at center, while the third is similarly situated to the right. Mountains can be seen faintly in the distance.
Asset Metadata
Title
Birdseye view of Alhambra, showing homesteads and orchards, ca.1883
Subject
agricultural sites
(adlf),
Agriculture
(lcsh),
Dwellings
(lcsh),
Los Angeles County -- Alhambra -- General
(file heading),
Orchards
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Alhambra
(city or populated place),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1883
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 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)
Date Created
1883
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-m5047
Identifier
12714 (
accession number
), CHS-12714 (
call number
), CHS-12714 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-25595 (
legacy record id
), chs-m5047 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-5149 (
legacy record id
), 1-24- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
25595
Unique identifier
UC132701
Legacy Identifier
CHS-12714.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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