California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Four horse hack outside of the Los Angeles House hotel in Pasadena, at the disposal of United States President Benjamin Harrison, 1891

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Four horse hack outside of the Los Angeles House hotel in Pasadena, at the disposal of United States President Benjamin Harrison, 1891

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Photograph of a four horse hack outside of the Los Angeles House hotel in Pasadena, at the disposal of United States President Benjamin Harrison, 1891. Four horses, two black and two white, are hitched to a covered carriage decorated with leaves and flowers that stands in front of the Los Angeles House. The coachmen attends the horses' reigns. Behind, on the porch of the L.A. house, above which American flags and star-spangled ribbon are hung, spectators gather, looking out. A streetlamp and the rear of another carriage are visible to the extreme left.

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Title Four horse hack outside of the Los Angeles House hotel in Pasadena, at the disposal of United States President Benjamin Harrison, 1891

Subject Coaching (lcsh), Harrison, President Benjamin (subject), Horses (lcsh), Presidents (lcsh), Transportation -- Draft -- Stage coaches (file heading), transportation features (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1891

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 1891

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11828

Identifier 6480 (accession number), CHS-6480 (call number), CHS-6480 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11238 (legacy record id), chs-m11828 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-11980 (legacy record id), 1-37-114 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11238

Unique identifier UC129766

Legacy Identifier CHS-6480.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.5 in × 11.1 in at 300dpi
49.6 cm × 28.3 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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