Girl trapped on a rock formation in off Point Fermin as the tide comes in, San Pedro, ca.1891

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Photograph of a girl trapped on a rock formation in off Point Fermin as the tide comes in, San Pedro, ca.1891. The girl stands on the edge of a slab of rock extending from a pillar of stone that is surrounded by water. Her arms are outstretched, a hat and cloat at her feet. Water is rushing in to cover the ground in front of her. Picture file card reads: "caught when the tide came in off Point Fermin". Compares to CHS-291.

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Title Girl trapped on a rock formation in off Point Fermin as the tide comes in, San Pedro, ca.1891

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1891

Subject Lighthouses (lcsh), Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- Point Fermin and Point Fermin Lighthouse (file heading), natural rock formations (adlf), Ocean (lcsh), Rocks (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), capes: Point Fermin (geographic subject), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), San Pedro (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1891

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)

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-m4464

Identifier 7653 (accession number), CHS-7653 (call number), CHS-7653 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5119 (legacy record id), chs-m4464 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14363 (legacy record id), 1-50-116 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5119

Unique identifier UC127244

Legacy Identifier CHS-7653.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.0 in × 17.8 in at 300dpi
35.5 cm × 45.2 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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