California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Portrait of the attendees of a Swan's Valley fund-raising picnic, Catalina Island, [s.d.]

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Portrait of the attendees of a Swan's Valley fund-raising picnic, Catalina Island, [s.d.]

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Photographic portrait of the attendees of a Swan's Valley fund-raising picnic, Catalina Island, [s.d.]. The attendees pose in the open air, several dozen men, women and children dressed at various levels of formality, arranged in approximately five rows. A shack is visible behind two trees that can be seen behind the posed group. A large, cactus-laden hill is visible in the background. A man with a candy-striped coat squats in the second row, holding a guitar in his lap. A man at the far back center holds his hat in the air in order to be seen. The picnic was held in order to raise money for the purchase of a church bell.

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Title Portrait of the attendees of a Swan's Valley fund-raising picnic, Catalina Island, [s.d.]

Subject Fund raising (lcsh), Islands (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Catalina -- General (file heading), Picnicking (lcsh), Valleys (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Avalon (city or populated place), California (states), islands: Santa Catalina Island (geographic subject), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (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-m5480

Identifier 7605 (accession number), CHS-7605 (call number), CHS-7605 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-26001 (legacy record id), chs-m5480 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5593 (legacy record id), 1-26- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 26001

Unique identifier UC130097

Legacy Identifier CHS-7605.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 12.4 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 31.5 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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