Exterior view of the Avalon Hotel on Crescent Avenue, Santa Catalina Island, 1889

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Avalon Hotel on Crescent Avenue, Santa Catalina Island, 1889. Alonzo W. Wheeler was proprietor. The two-story wooden building has a covered porch in front with balcony overhead. About six people are standing near the entrance beside or on the porch. Visible adjacent buildings include a bakery and grocery store. Legible signs include: "Bakery" and "Cable Grocery". Mountains are visible in the background.

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Title Exterior view of the Avalon Hotel on Crescent Avenue, Santa Catalina Island, 1889

Subject Avalon Home (subject), Avalon Hotel (subject), buildings (adlf), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Islands (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Catalina -- Architecture (file heading), Wheeler, Alonzo W. (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Avalon (city or populated place), California (states), Crescent Avenue (roadway), Los Angeles (counties), Santa Catalina Island (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1889

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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 1889

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-m5531

Identifier 1880 (accession number), CHS-1880 (call number), CHS-1880 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-26050 (legacy record id), chs-m5531 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5645 (legacy record id), 1-26- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 26050

Unique identifier UC129728

Legacy Identifier CHS-1880.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.2 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
43.9 cm × 33.7 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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