Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica looking north, ca.1890

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Photograph of Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica looking north, showing residences, palm trees and eucalyptus trees lining the sidewalk, ca.1890. The sidewalk at center is shaded by the tall trees along its left side. Short palm trees decorate the grass yards that sit in front of the houses on the far right. A dirt road lies behind the trees on the left. More trees stand in a row in the background on the far left.

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Title Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica looking north, ca.1890

Subject Dwellings (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Santa Monica -- Streets -- Ocean Avenue (file heading), Residential Street (subject), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Ocean Avenue (roadway), Santa Monica (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1885/1895

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 15 x 20 cm.; 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 20 cm. (aacr2), 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)

Date Created 1885/1895

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5243

Identifier 287 (accession number), CHS-287 (call number), CHS-287 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25784 (legacy record id), chs-m5243 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5349 (legacy record id), 1-54- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25784

Unique identifier UC128992

Legacy Identifier CHS-287.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.9 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
45.7 cm × 34.9 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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