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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of the San Gabriel fire, 1924
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View of the San Gabriel fire, 1924
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Description
Photograph of a view of the San Gabriel fire, 1924. The fire burns over the mountains, forming a unified front over the tops. A wall of smoke blankets the sky at center, obstructing the view of the other mountains in the background. Caption reads "San Gabriel Fire 1924, back-firing at night on Clamshell fire-break north of Monrovia".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of the San Gabriel fire, 1924
Subject
Fires
(lcsh),
forests
(adlf),
Forests and forestry
(lcsh),
Lumber
(lcsh),
Mountains
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1924
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 18 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)
Date Created
1924
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m24677
Identifier
39013 (
accession number
), CHS-39013 (
call number
), CHS-39013 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-23945 (
legacy record id
), chs-m24677 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
), AGRI-33 (
unidentified no.
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
23945
Unique identifier
UC129853
Legacy Identifier
CHS-39013.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
27.8 in × 20.0 in at 300dpi
70.8 cm × 51.0 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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