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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Group of men in front of the unfinished First Hotel in Corona, ca.1888
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Group of men in front of the unfinished First Hotel in Corona, ca.1888
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Description
Photograph of a group of men in front of the unfinished First Hotel in Corona, ca.1888. Eight men stand and sit in the extreme foreground of the image, looking off to the right. Behind them, a three-story hotel stands on a cleared plot of land, lumber leaning against its unfinished balcony at left. In the distance, mountains trace the horizon line. Picture file card reads "Hotel built by A.S. Garretson, cost about $15,000. R.B. Taylor was leader in the founding of the colony which stands apart at left. Hotel was operated for many years by O.A. Smith".
Asset Metadata
Title
Group of men in front of the unfinished First Hotel in Corona, ca.1888
Subject
buildings
(adlf),
Garretson, A. L.
(subject),
Hotels, taverns, etc.
(lcsh),
Riverside County -- Corona
(file heading),
Views
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Corona
(city or populated place),
Riverside
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1888
Type
images
Format
1 photographs : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
photographs
(aat),
transparencies
(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
1888
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-m8066
Identifier
8967 (
accession number
), CHS-8967 (
call number
), CHS-8967 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-8392 (
legacy record id
), chs-m8066 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-8197 (
legacy record id
), 1-43- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
8392
Unique identifier
UC126263
Legacy Identifier
CHS-8967.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.9 in × 15.6 in at 300dpi
50.6 cm × 39.7 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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