California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Group having a picnic near a rock formation at Casa del Mar, [s.d.]

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Group having a picnic near a rock formation at Casa del Mar, [s.d.]

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Photograph of a group having a picnic near a rock formation at Casa del Mar, [s.d.]. The group sit on the left on top of the jagged rock surface with the ladies in dresses and large hats and the gentlemen in nice shirts and ties. The group is surrounded by sharp peaks of in the rock while a large rock formation leans above, inclining upward and to the left just behind them. The formation stands on the sandy beach which can be seen in the background on the left with the pale ocean washing over it.

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Title Group having a picnic near a rock formation at Casa del Mar, [s.d.]

Subject Natural features -- Rock formations (file heading), natural rock formations (adlf), Rocks (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

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), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m21013

Identifier 46522 (accession number), CHS-46522 (call number), CHS-46522 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-20030 (legacy record id), chs-m21013 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14308 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 20030

Unique identifier UC122436

Legacy Identifier CHS-46522.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.9 in × 15.3 in at 300dpi
50.6 cm × 39.0 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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