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Birdseye view of Mariposa Street in Fresno, looking towards the courthouse, 1886
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Birdseye view of Mariposa Street in Fresno, looking towards the courthouse, 1886
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Description
Photograph of a birdseye view of Mariposa Street in Fresno, looking towards the courthouse, 1886. Mariposa Street is a wide dirt road that runs from the foreground at center to the base of the courthouse in the distance at right. The road is lined with low wooden buildings that have covered porches across their entire storefronts. In the background at left, several more buildings are visible, including a church with a tall steeple. The courthouse is a three-story building with a tall cupola on its flat roof.
Asset Metadata
Title
Birdseye view of Mariposa Street in Fresno, looking towards the courthouse, 1886
Subject
cities
(adlf),
Fresno County -- Fresno -- General
(file heading),
Streets
(lcsh),
Views
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Fresno
(city or populated place),
Fresno
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1886
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection)
Date Created
1886
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-m6996
Identifier
32963 (
accession number
), CHS-32963 (
call number
), CHS-32963 (
filename
), chs-m15009 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-7049 (
legacy record id
), chs-m6996 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-7111 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
7049
Unique identifier
UC122016
Legacy Identifier
CHS-32963.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
23.4 in × 15.0 in at 300dpi
59.5 cm × 38.1 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Description
The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.
We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
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