California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Panoramic view of Mission Street and Orange Grove Avenue in South Pasadena, 1874

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Panoramic view of Mission Street and Orange Grove Avenue in South Pasadena, 1874

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Photograph of a panoramic view of Mission Street and Orange Grove Avenue in South Pasadena, 1874. The photograph, which shows only a handful of homesteads over a vast stretch of land, was taken at the time of the first colonists' purchase. Several fields appear to be arranged in crop rows at center. The mountains can be seen, faintly, in the background.

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Title Panoramic view of Mission Street and Orange Grove Avenue in South Pasadena, 1874

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1874

Subject cities (adlf), Los Angeles County -- South Pasadena -- General views (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Mission Street & Orange Grove Avenue (roadway), South Pasadena (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1874

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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)

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-m5276

Identifier CHS-6452 (call number), CHS-6452 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25813 (legacy record id), chs-m5276 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5388 (legacy record id), 1-37- (microfiche number), USC (project), 6452 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25813

Unique identifier UC129342

Legacy Identifier CHS-6452.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.6 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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