California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Earthquake damage at the corner of Market Street & Montgomery Street, [s.d.]

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Earthquake damage at the corner of Market Street & Montgomery Street, [s.d.]

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Photograph of earthquake damage at the corner of Market Street & Montgomery Street, [s.d.]. The horizontal cross stret is shown in the foreground, while the street perpendicular to it extends into the center distance, covered by rubble. At right, the walls of a building have partially crumbled. In the distance at left, three men inspect the damage in the street.

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Title Earthquake damage at the corner of Market Street & Montgomery Street, [s.d.]

Subject buildings (adlf), Earthquakes (lcsh), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Market Street & Montgomery Street (roadway), San Francisco (city or populated place), San Francisco (counties), USA (countries)

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)

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

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-m23566

Identifier 49436 (accession number), CHS-49436 (call number), CHS-49436 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-21822 (legacy record id), chs-m23566 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 21822

Unique identifier UC127394

Legacy Identifier CHS-49436.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 27.4 in × 19.7 in at 300dpi
69.8 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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