California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Echo Mountain House veranda, with Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe and guests, ca.1895

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Echo Mountain House veranda, with Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe and guests, ca.1895

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Photograph of Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe (far left) and guests on the veranda of the Echo Mountain House, ca.1895. The small group of finely-dressed people stands on the long, lightly-colored veranda at left while a view of a second large house can be seen at right. Behind the large house stand the tree-spotted mountains.

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Title Echo Mountain House veranda, with Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe and guests, ca.1895

Subject buildings (adlf), Echo Mountain House (subject), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Altadena -- Mt. Lowe (file heading), Lowe, Professor Thaddeus S. C. (subject), Mountains (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1895

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

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

Date Created 1895

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-m5192

Identifier 40206 (accession number), CHS-40206 (call number), CHS-40206 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25737 (legacy record id), chs-m5192 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-5294 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25737

Unique identifier UC129134

Legacy Identifier CHS-40206.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.7 in × 16.5 in at 300dpi
52.7 cm × 41.9 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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