California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Work crews building the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad, South Pasadena, ca.1885

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Work crews building the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad, South Pasadena, ca.1885

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Photograph of work crews building the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad, South Pasadena, ca.1885. Dozens of men labor at the site, including a group about to lay a rail at left. A wooden building bears the sign "C. Ehrenfeld, architect & builder".

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Title Work crews building the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad, South Pasadena, ca.1885

Subject Building (lcsh), C. Ehrenfeld, Architect and Builder (subject), Los Angeles and San Gabriel Railroad (subject), Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad (subject), Railroads (lcsh), Transportation -- Railroads -- Southern California -- Los Angeles County (file heading), Transportation -- Railroads -- Southern California -- San Gabriel Railroad (file heading), transportation features (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1885

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photoprints, b&w ; 13 x 20 cm., 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (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 1885

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12088

Identifier 4798 (accession number), CHS-4798 (call number), CHS-4798 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11583 (legacy record id), chs-m12088 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12241 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12483 (legacy record id), 1-37- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11583

Unique identifier UC130083

Legacy Identifier CHS-4798.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.0 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 33.1 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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