California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of a lawn being watered, showing a horse-drawn streetcar on Garfield Avenue in Alhambra, ca.1888

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View of a lawn being watered, showing a horse-drawn streetcar on Garfield Avenue in Alhambra, ca.1888

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Photograph of a view of a lawn being watered, showing a horse-drawn streetcar on Garfield Avenue in Alhambra, ca.1888. A tall sprinkler is pictured at center attached to a standard garden hose in the middle of a lawn peppered by bushes and saplings. In the left backgorund, two horses draw a streetcar across an unpaved road.

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Title View of a lawn being watered, showing a horse-drawn streetcar on Garfield Avenue in Alhambra, ca.1888

Subject Horse railroads (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Alhambra -- Streets (file heading), Parks (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- Horse drawn cars (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Alhambra (city or populated place), California (states), Garfield Avenue (roadway), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1888

Type images

Format 4 photographs : photonegatives, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographic prints (aat), 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 1888

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-m5077

Identifier 12713 (accession number), CHS-12713 (call number), CHS-12713 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25624 (legacy record id), chs-m5077 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-12750 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-5179 (legacy record id), 1-24- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25624

Unique identifier UC129010

Legacy Identifier CHS-12713.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.3 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
44.0 cm × 34.4 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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