Structures being built along the mountainside on Catalina Island, 1927

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Photograph of structures being built along the mountainside on Catalina Island, 1927. At center, an array of wooden framework and platforms extends from the upper left of the image to the lower right. Several of the platforms are connected via stairs, while the others are connected by ladders. Houses can be partially seen in the right background.

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Title Structures being built along the mountainside on Catalina Island, 1927

Subject buildings (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-m23218

Identifier 49403 (accession number), CHS-49403 (call number), CHS-49403 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-23081 (legacy record id), chs-m23218 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 23081

Unique identifier UC126823

Legacy Identifier CHS-49403.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 27.1 in × 19.7 in at 300dpi
68.8 cm × 50.0 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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