California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of the first house in Alhambra on north Granada Avenue, [s.d.]

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View of the first house in Alhambra on north Granada Avenue, [s.d.]

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Photograph of a view of the first house in Alhambra on north Granada Avenue, [s.d.]. The home, built by the Wallace family in 1878 with lumber hauled from Mount Wilson by oxen, is pictured just to the right of center, surrounded by a picket fence on the outside of which a man can be seen leaning. Farther back, the wooden cabin can be seen behind some tree foliage, the silhouettes of three children visible ot the right of it.; Caption reads: "Ten acres was bought for $1,000. Same property now valued at $10,000 per acre".

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Title View of the first house in Alhambra on north Granada Avenue, [s.d.]

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Subject Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), Dwellings (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Alhambra -- Architecture -- Domestic -- General (file heading), residential sites (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Alhambra (city or populated place), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), North Granada Avenue (roadway), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm., 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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-m5058

Identifier 12711 (accession number), CHS-12711 (call number), CHS-12711 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25605 (legacy record id), chs-m5058 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-5160 (legacy record id), 1-24- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25605

Unique identifier UC128889

Legacy Identifier CHS-12711.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.9 in × 16.1 in at 300dpi
50.6 cm × 41.0 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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