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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Mount Lowe Incline Railway from an aerial perspective, California, [s.d.]
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Mount Lowe Incline Railway from an aerial perspective, California, [s.d.]
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Description
Photograph of Mount Lowe Incline Railway from an aerial perspective, California, [s.d.]. The roof of the station where the incline begins is bottom-center at right. A rail car which brings passengers to this point is in the station. An incline car is filled with about twenty-five passengers ready to begin up the incline. The surrounding terrain is rocky with low lying scrub brush.
Asset Metadata
Title
Mount Lowe Incline Railway from an aerial perspective, California, [s.d.]
Subject
Los Angeles County -- Altadena -- Mt. Lowe
(file heading),
Mountains
(lcsh),
railroad features
(adlf),
Railroads, Cable
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Altadena
(city or populated place),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(counties),
mountains: Mount Lowe
(geographic subject),
USA
(countries)
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 25 x 20 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(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)
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-m5168
Identifier
945 (
accession number
), CHS-945 (
call number
), CHS-945 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-25715 (
legacy record id
), chs-m5168 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-5270 (
legacy record id
), 1-38-32 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
25715
Unique identifier
UC129237
Legacy Identifier
CHS-945.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
14.2 in × 18.7 in at 300dpi
36.2 cm × 47.5 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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