California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Portrait of coachmen in front of the Wells Fargo Express and Stage Line depot, Cisco, ca.1880

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Portrait of coachmen in front of the Wells Fargo Express and Stage Line depot, Cisco, ca.1880

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Photographic portrait of coachmen in front of the Wells Fargo Express and Stage Line depot, Cisco, ca.1880. A large crowd of people pose on and around a locomotive engine and two stage coaches in front of a large clapboard-sided barn. A man in a top hat stands to the right of the partially visible steam engine at the extreme left, one stagecoach fully visible and hitched to its horses at center. The second coach is partially visible beyond it to the right. Forest can be seen in the background. Record file reads: "First trainer for Wells Fargo Company Express and Stage Lines arriving at Cisco.".

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Title Portrait of coachmen in front of the Wells Fargo Express and Stage Line depot, Cisco, ca.1880

Subject Coaching (lcsh), Horses (lcsh), Transportation -- Draft -- Stage coaches (file heading), transportation features (adlf), Wells Fargo Express and Stage Lines (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Cisco (city or populated place), Placer (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1880

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 1880

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-m11820

Identifier 7434 (accession number), CHS-7434 (call number), CHS-7434 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11231 (legacy record id), chs-m11820 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-11972 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11231

Unique identifier UC129236

Legacy Identifier CHS-7434.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.7 in × 14.2 in at 300dpi
47.6 cm × 36.1 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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