California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exhibit, number 24, for the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, showing a painting depicting Avalon Harbor, [s.d.]

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Exhibit, number 24, for the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, showing a painting depicting Avalon Harbor, [s.d.]

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Photograph of an exhibit, number 24, for the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, showing a painting depicting Avalon Harbor, [s.d.]. Palm trees surrounda large building on the hills on either side of the foreground of the painting. The hills get more jagged as they curve around the right side. Automobiles drive along a road which curves around the foot of the hills at center. The circular Casino stands on the beach as the water washes up around it in the background at center. A ship can be seen in the water on the far left.

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Title Exhibit, number 24, for the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, showing a painting depicting Avalon Harbor, [s.d.]

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Subject buildings (adlf), Exhibitions (lcsh), Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce (corporate name)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), 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-m23681

Identifier 48143 (accession number), CHS-48143 (call number), CHS-48143 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-22026 (legacy record id), chs-m23681 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 22026

Unique identifier UC127342

Legacy Identifier CHS-48143.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 28.2 in × 20.3 in at 300dpi
71.8 cm × 51.7 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

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