Mount Lowe Railway painting, California, [s.d.]

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Photograph of Mount Lowe Railway painting, California, [s.d.]. At the center of the painting in the foreground, a large rock formation is visible. To the right, a steep cliff has been drawn with a section of track near its top. Down the steep slope, numerous trees can be seen descending into the basin below at left. In the background at center, large mountain ranges are visible. To the far right, tracks can be seen winding along the ridges of the mountains. In the extreme background, an aerial view of the city is shown. City blocks and small mountain ridges are visible.

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Title Mount Lowe Railway painting, California, [s.d.]

Subject Art (lcsh), Electric railroads (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Altadena -- Mt. Lowe (file heading), Mountains (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), glass plate negatives (format), 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-m5153

Identifier 391 (accession number), CHS-391 (call number), CHS-391 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25700 (legacy record id), chs-m5153 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5255 (legacy record id), 1-38-28 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25700

Unique identifier UC129048

Legacy Identifier CHS-391.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 12.7 in at 300dpi
43.2 cm × 32.4 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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