California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Woman and two little girls on the rocky beach of Avalon harbor, Santa Catalina Island, ca.1905

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Woman and two little girls on the rocky beach of Avalon harbor, Santa Catalina Island, ca.1905

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Photograph of a woman and two little girls standing on the rocky beach at Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, ca.1905. Behind them are rocky cliffs. Beyond them is the town of Avalon including several houses high on the cliffs. Mountains are visible in the background.

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Title Woman and two little girls on the rocky beach of Avalon harbor, Santa Catalina Island, ca.1905

Subject Harbors (lcsh), Harbors (adlf), Islands (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Catalina -- Avalon Harbor (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1905

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1905

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-m5607

Identifier 1607 (accession number), CHS-1607 (call number), CHS-1607 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-26125 (legacy record id), chs-m5607 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5724 (legacy record id), 1-26- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 26125

Unique identifier UC129751

Legacy Identifier CHS-1607.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.9 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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