California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Portrait of passengers on the Boston to Springfield, Massachusets stage coach, ca.1876

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Portrait of passengers on the Boston to Springfield, Massachusets stage coach, ca.1876

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Photographic portrait of passengers on the Boston to Springfield, Massachusets stage coach, picturing Chester W. Chapin, President of Boston and Albany Railroad, and Charles Merriam, publisher of Webster's Dictionary, Boston, ca.1876. A footman attends one of the two frontmost horses of the coach at left, while thirteen passengers including the drivers are visible on top of the carriage to the right. Victorian-style homes with gingerbread roofing are visible along the street in the background behind trees and a painted, wrought-iron fence.

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Title Portrait of passengers on the Boston to Springfield, Massachusets stage coach, ca.1876

Subject Boston to Springfield Coach (subject), Chapin, Chester W. (subject), Coaching (lcsh), Horses (lcsh), Merriam, Charles (subject), Transportation -- Draft -- Stage coaches (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Boston (city or populated place), Massachusetts (states), Springfield (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1871/1881

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 19 x 25 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)

Date Created 1871/1881

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-m11827

Identifier 6984 (accession number), CHS-6984 (call number), CHS-6984 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11237 (legacy record id), chs-m11827 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-11979 (legacy record id), 1-155- (microfiche number), J (microfilm reel number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11237

Unique identifier UC129799

Legacy Identifier CHS-6984.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.4 in × 9.6 in at 300dpi
46.9 cm × 24.5 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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