California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of the Los Angeles Harbor, showing the schooner "Meteor" being towed by a tugboat, ca.1900/1909

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View of the Los Angeles Harbor, showing the schooner "Meteor" being towed by a tugboat, ca.1900/1909

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Photograph of a view of the Los Angeles Harbor, showing the schooner "Meteor" being towed by a tugboat, ca.1900/1909. Various boats sit, docked, along the left edge of the image, while a pier and other boats sit along the right edge. At center, the schooner "Meteor" is towed by a tugboat whose smokestack emits a cloud of steam or smoke. Other boats and buildings are visible at the horizon, at the far edge of the harbor's waters.

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Title View of the Los Angeles Harbor, showing the schooner "Meteor" being towed by a tugboat, ca.1900/1909

Subject Harbors (lcsh), Harbors (adlf), Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- Los Angeles Harbors -- General views -- Undated (file heading), ships (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), San Pedro (city or populated place), USA (countries), Wilmington (city or populated place)

Temporal Subject 1900/1909

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1900/1909

Creator Graham Photo Company (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-m4509

Identifier 14537 (accession number), CHS-14537 (call number), CHS-14537 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5078 (legacy record id), chs-m4509 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-4606 (legacy record id), 1-50- (microfiche number), USC (project), 16A (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5078

Unique identifier UC126555

Legacy Identifier CHS-14537.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.7 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
50.2 cm × 40.8 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

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

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