California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Avalon from stage road, Santa Catalina Island, ca.1900-1905

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Avalon from stage road, Santa Catalina Island, ca.1900-1905

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Photograph of Avalon from stage road, Santa Catalina Island, ca.1900-1905. A stage coach is coming down the road at left. A man is standing beside an embankment near a curve in the road watching the stage. Mountains in background.

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Title Avalon from stage road, Santa Catalina Island, ca.1900-1905

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1900/1905

Subject cities (adlf), Harbors (lcsh), Harbors (adlf), Islands (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Catalina -- Avalon Harbor (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1900/1905

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photoprints, b&w ; 13 x 21 cm., 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)

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-m5598

Identifier 838A (accession number), CHS-838A (call number), CHS-838A (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-26116 (legacy record id), chs-m5598 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5715 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 26116

Unique identifier UC130110

Legacy Identifier CHS-838A.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 10.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 26.7 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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