California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Avalon from the west looking towards the sea, ca.1892-1893

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View of Avalon from the west looking towards the sea, ca.1892-1893

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Photograph of a view of Avalon from the west, ca.1892-1893. Low-growing vegetation and hilly terrain stand in the foreground while the town descends from the hillside in the left distance and extends toward the shore at right. A large two-story beach house can be seen at center, with a similar hut to the far right.

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Title View of Avalon from the west looking towards the sea, ca.1892-1893

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1892/1893

Subject cities (adlf), Harbors (lcsh), Islands (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Catalina -- Avalon Harbor (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1892/1893

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 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)

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5565

Identifier 7625 (accession number), CHS-7625 (call number), CHS-7625 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-26083 (legacy record id), chs-m5565 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5682 (legacy record id), 1-26- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 26083

Unique identifier UC129994

Legacy Identifier CHS-7625.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.5 in × 13.9 in at 300dpi
46.9 cm × 35.4 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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