California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Stage coach used by the Butterfield Stage company between Los Angeles and Saint Louis, ca.1858

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Stage coach used by the Butterfield Stage company between Los Angeles and Saint Louis, ca.1858

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Photograph of a stage coach used by the Butterfield Stage company between Los Angeles and Saint Louis, ca.1858. The coach itself sports a cabin with four windows on each side, two small and two large with the larger windows supplied with what appear to be canvas flaps, spoked wheels, a carriage driver's seat which extends from the back, and a luggage shelf beneath it, on which rests a steamer trunk. The carriage is unhitched. A 22-day fare on the coach in 1858 cost ninety dollars.

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Title Stage coach used by the Butterfield Stage company between Los Angeles and Saint Louis, ca.1858

Subject Butterfield Stage (subject), Coaching (lcsh), Transportation -- Draft -- Stage coaches (file heading), transportation features (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1858

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1858

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

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-m11860

Identifier 6360 (accession number), CHS-6360 (call number), CHS-6360 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11270 (legacy record id), chs-m11860 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12012 (legacy record id), 1-155- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11270

Unique identifier UC129355

Legacy Identifier CHS-6360.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 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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