California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the adobe stage station in San Francisquito Canyon, 1942

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Exterior view of the adobe stage station in San Francisquito Canyon, 1942

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Photograph of the exterior view of the adobe stage station in San Francisquito Canyon circa 1930. The adobe is in dilapidated condition. Stucco is pealing from the adobe walls. The shingles on the roof has fallen off at certain areas. Wild grass cover the surrounding areas around the house. Trees are visible in the background.; "The adobe was built by Marta Caravajales and Juan Celis. Later it was used by Major Ben Gorman as a stop on a stage line he operated between Los Angeles and the Mojave and Willow Springs mines in the early 1870s. The adobe was probably built around 1856 to 1858. It escaped destruction by the 1927 San Francis Dam disaster, being above it." -- unknown author.; Photoprint reads: "San Francisquito Canyon. The building of this one is credited to Marta Caravajales and Juan Celis. No date is given. It was one of seven adobes in the canyon, six of them were destroyed by the St. Francis Dam flood in 1927. This one escaped, being above the dam. The 1929 annual publication of the Historical Society has a picture of this building marked "Major Gorman's Stage post." This was Ben Gorman who operated a stage line between Los Angeles and the Mojave and Willow Springs mines in the early 1870's until the Southern Pacific Railroad came in 1876. It was quite likely that this was a stopping place. My idea about the date of this building is that all the adobes in the canyon were built about 1856-8 when the county built the road through here. -- unknown author".

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Title Exterior view of the adobe stage station in San Francisquito Canyon, 1942

Subject Adobe houses (lcsh), Caravajales, Marta (subject), Celis, Juan (subject), Coaching (lcsh), Gorman, Major Ben (subject), housing areas (adlf), Los Angeles County -- Newhall (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1942

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 21 x 26 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)

Date Created 1942

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5978

Identifier 8596 (accession number), CHS-8596 (call number), CHS-8596 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5988 (legacy record id), chs-m5978 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6086 (legacy record id), 1-33- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5988

Unique identifier UC127739

Legacy Identifier CHS-8596.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 14.6 in at 300dpi
47.7 cm × 37.2 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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