California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Street scene in Catalina, November 11, 1927

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Street scene in Catalina, November 11, 1927

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Photograph of a street scene in Catalina, November 11, 1927. A short, wooden pay station extends from the left foreground to the trees in the center background. On the right, a row of small, identical structure continue from the foreground to the trees in the background. Thick, winding trees decorate the center of the thin street between the two sides while wooden beams connect their roofs overhead.

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Title Street scene in Catalina, November 11, 1927

Subject buildings (lcsh), Islands (lcsh), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), islands: Santa Catalina Island (geographic subject), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1927-11-11

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 18 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 1927-11-11

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m23587

Identifier 48128 (accession number), CHS-48128 (call number), CHS-48128 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-21843 (legacy record id), chs-m23587 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 21843

Unique identifier UC127105

Legacy Identifier CHS-48128.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 27.7 in × 19.8 in at 300dpi
70.4 cm × 50.4 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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