California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Sonora Town looking north from the Santa Monica Depot Railroad in the san Pedro Street area, 1873

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View of Sonora Town looking north from the Santa Monica Depot Railroad in the san Pedro Street area, 1873

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Photograph of a view of Sonora Town looking north from the Santa Monica Depot Railroad in the san Pedro Street area, 1873. A cathedral is visible in the distance to the right, with the rest of the town in the left distance. A tilled lot enclosed by picket fence can be seen in front of a small house in the foreground, separated from the rest of the town by a thicket of dry, leafless trees. A second house is partially visible to the right. Along with the paved street and sidewalk.

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Title View of Sonora Town looking north from the Santa Monica Depot Railroad in the san Pedro Street area, 1873

Subject Churches (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Sonora Town -- General (file heading), Plazas (lcsh), transportation features (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1873

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), 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 1873

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-m4922

Identifier 7429 (accession number), CHS-7429 (call number), CHS-7429 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25379 (legacy record id), chs-m4922 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5020 (legacy record id), 1-15-132 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25379

Unique identifier UC128938

Legacy Identifier CHS-7429.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.9 in × 18.5 in at 300dpi
37.9 cm × 47.2 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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