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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Echo Mountain Observatory, 1910
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Echo Mountain Observatory, 1910
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Description
Photograph of the Echo Mountain Observatory (Mount Lowe Observatory) buildings, 1910. The rotating dome of the building housing the large telescope is open toward the foreground. Several people stand on a path near a railing at the top of a small one-story wooden building. A wooden platform is in the foreground. The mountains rise closely in the background.
Asset Metadata
Title
Echo Mountain Observatory, 1910
Subject
Los Angeles County -- Altadena -- Mt. Lowe
(file heading),
Mountains
(lcsh),
Observatories
(lcsh),
research facilities
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Altadena
(city or populated place),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1910
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1910
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-m5127
Identifier
2186 (
accession number
), CHS-2186 (
call number
), CHS-2186 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-25674 (
legacy record id
), chs-m5127 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-5229 (
legacy record id
), 1-100-4 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
25674
Unique identifier
UC128983
Legacy Identifier
CHS-2186.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.8 in × 14.1 in at 300dpi
45.2 cm × 35.9 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
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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