California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

People on stage coach in front of post office in Red Mountain, Colorado, 1890

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People on stage coach in front of post office in Red Mountain, Colorado, 1890

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Photograph of people on stage coach in front of post office in Red Mountain, Colorado, 1890. This post office was said to be the highest regular post office in the United States, at 11,300 feet elevation. Four men and a woman sit on the top side of the coach. Four horses are hitched to the stage. Several men stand near the buildings in the background looking onward. Pine trees cover the mountains in the background. A "Post Office" sign is displayed on the building at left.

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Title People on stage coach in front of post office in Red Mountain, Colorado, 1890

Subject Coaching (lcsh), Horses (lcsh), Mountains (lcsh), post office buildings (adlf), Postal service -- Buildings (lcsh), Transportation -- Draft -- Stage coaches (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Colorado (states), Red Mountain (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1890

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1890

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-m11819

Identifier 8629 (accession number), CHS-8629 (call number), CHS-8629 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11230 (legacy record id), chs-m11819 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-11971 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11230

Unique identifier UC129159

Legacy Identifier CHS-8629.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.2 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
51.4 cm × 41.3 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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