Views of Mount Lowe, [s.d.]

Loading details...

You do not have the permission to view Original image

Download

Copy Asset Link

Request this asset

Description

Composite photograph of views of Mount Lowe, [s.d.]. From left to right, top to bottom, the first two images show some sort of car riding down a steep track on the mountain. The third shows a part of the railroad in the trees and the fourth shows the railroad curving around the mountain towards a large, lightly-colored house. The fifth shows a large, lightly-colored house at a peak with men using a device to travel down the mountain. The sixth shows a man operating a searchlight and the seventh shows a donkey. The last picture is an aerial view of the railroad climbing up the mountain.

Asset Metadata

Title Views of Mount Lowe, [s.d.]

Subject Donkeys (lcsh), Electric railroads (lcsh), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Altadena -- Mt. Lowe (file heading), Mountains (lcsh), Mountains (adlf), Search-lights (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Type images

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

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-m5209

Identifier 44865 (accession number), CHS-44865 (call number), CHS-44865 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25754 (legacy record id), chs-m5209 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5311 (legacy record id), 1-38-8 (microfiche number), USC (project), 1673 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25754

Unique identifier UC129772

Legacy Identifier CHS-44865.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.0 in × 16.5 in at 300dpi
33.1 cm × 41.9 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

Linked assets