California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Echo Mountain House and Observatory with view of basin, [s.d.]

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Echo Mountain House and Observatory with view of basin, [s.d.]

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Photograph of a view of the Los Angeles basin (including Pasadena), with Echo Mountain House and Observatory in foreground, [s.d.]. The large Echo Mountain House stands at the top of a grassy hill in the left foreground with a road next to it that leads to the Observatory at right. The Los Angeles basin lies behind the hill with roads extending through the many grass fields. A fog hangs over the basin and low mountains are barely visible in the background.

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Title Echo Mountain House and Observatory with view of basin, [s.d.]

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

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Subject Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), 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)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 16.5 x 21.5 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)

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-m5121

Identifier 261 (accession number), CHS-261 (call number), CHS-261 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25668 (legacy record id), chs-m5121 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5223 (legacy record id), 1-38-22 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25668

Unique identifier UC128964

Legacy Identifier CHS-261.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.4 in × 14.0 in at 300dpi
46.8 cm × 35.7 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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