California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Portrait of Spanish dancers and accompanying musicians outside at the Southwest Museum's Casa Adobe, Los Angeles, ca.1930-1939

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Portrait of Spanish dancers and accompanying musicians outside at the Southwest Museum's Casa Adobe, Los Angeles, ca.1930-1939

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Photographic portrait of Spanish dancers and accompanying musicians outside at the Southwest Museum's Casa Adobe, Los Angeles, ca.1930-1939. A string band of four guitarists and one violinist stand in the foreground with their backs to the camera. On the elevated dance floor beyond them, a man in a bolero suit and a woman in a calico dress dance side to side, supporting each other's left hands. A garden and the terracotta roof of an adobe are visible in the background.

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Title Portrait of Spanish dancers and accompanying musicians outside at the Southwest Museum's Casa Adobe, Los Angeles, ca.1930-1939

Subject Adobe houses (lcsh), Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), Bands (Music) (lcsh), Californios (file heading), Casa Adobe (subject), Costume, Spanish (lcsh), Dance (lcsh), Dwellings (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Sonora Town -- Architecture -- Domestic (file heading), residential sites (adlf), Southwest Museum (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place buildings: Southwest Museum (geographic subject), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930/1939

Type images

Format 2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat), transparencies (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 1930/1939

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-m4841

Identifier 7406 (accession number), CHS-7406 (call number), CHS-7406 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25299 (legacy record id), chs-m4841 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-4939 (legacy record id), 1-15-122 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25299

Unique identifier UC128932

Legacy Identifier CHS-7406.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.0 in × 18.9 in at 300dpi
38.1 cm × 48.2 cm at 300dpi

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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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