California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Mountains with floating clouds, seen from Mount Wilson, [s.d.]

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Mountains with floating clouds, seen from Mount Wilson, [s.d.]

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Photograph of a view from Mount Wilson of clouds floating on mountains, [s.d.]. A tree limb hangs over the right foreground while others tree stand in the left foreground. More mountains stand below at center. Low clouds wash against them from the right like water.

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Title Mountains with floating clouds, seen from Mount Wilson, [s.d.]

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Subject Clouds (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Altadena -- Mt. Lowe (file heading), Mountains (lcsh), Mountains (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

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-m5132

Identifier 44864 (accession number), CHS-44864 (call number), CHS-44864 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25679 (legacy record id), chs-m5132 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-5234 (legacy record id), USC (project), 3254 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25679

Unique identifier UC129095

Legacy Identifier CHS-44864.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.7 in × 13.9 in at 300dpi
47.5 cm × 35.3 cm at 300dpi

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Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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