The Long Beach Pier, ca. 1903

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Photograph of the Long Beach Pier, ca. 1903. Hundreds of people are gathered on or near the pier, which extends from the bottom left center up to near the top left corner of the photograph. Many people and a few horses also walk on the sand near the pier and the ocean and its shore can be seen in the background, stretching out into the horizon. Also in the background near the top center of the photograph is an immense pavillion filled with people. A sign on the pavillion reads "Welcome to Long Beach".

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Title The Long Beach Pier, ca. 1903

Subject Long Beach -- General -- Pike and pier (file heading), piers (adlf), piers (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Long Beach (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1903

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w (aacr2), 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 1903

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-m5826

Identifier 32796 (accession number), CHS-32796 (call number), CHS-32796 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5841 (legacy record id), chs-m5826 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5934 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5841

Unique identifier UC127636

Legacy Identifier CHS-32796.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 11.1 in × 9.2 in at 300dpi
28.3 cm × 23.4 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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