View of Pickering Park in Long Beach, ca.1905

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Photograph of a view of Pickering Park in Long Beach, ca.1905. The park is visible in the foreground and consists of a small field full of tall brush bordered by two dirt roads. A low wooden fence can be seen along the back of the park. At right, a large wooden building is visible, while the Pacific Electric Railway tracks can be seen at left. An assortment of trees, including several palm trees, can be seen in the background.

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Title View of Pickering Park in Long Beach, ca.1905

Subject Electric railroads (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Long Beach -- Parks (file heading), Parks (adlf), Parks (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1905

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (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 1905

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-m5907

Identifier 32785 (accession number), CHS-32785 (call number), CHS-32785 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5918 (legacy record id), chs-m5907 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6015 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5918

Unique identifier UC127632

Legacy Identifier CHS-32785.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.5 in × 16.3 in at 300dpi
52.2 cm × 41.5 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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