California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Shore of Catalina Island, showing anchored boats, 1927

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Shore of Catalina Island, showing anchored boats, 1927

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Photograph of the shore of Catalina Island, showing anchored boats, 1927. At center, a group of approximately fifteen boats can be seen anchored in a cove off the shore of the island, which can be seen at right. Four docks extend from the shore, while town buildings can be seen to the right. In the background, mountains can be seen.

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Title Shore of Catalina Island, showing anchored boats, 1927

Subject Harbors (adlf), Islands (lcsh), Ocean (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1927

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

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-m23211

Identifier 49400 (accession number), CHS-49400 (call number), CHS-49400 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-23073 (legacy record id), chs-m23211 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 23073

Unique identifier UC126818

Legacy Identifier CHS-49400.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 27.6 in × 19.7 in at 300dpi
70.1 cm × 50.1 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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