Aerial view of Long Beach, showing the pier and the amusement park, ca.1915

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Photograph of an aerial view of Long Beach, showing the pier and the amusement park, ca.1915. The amusement park is at center and is built on a wide rectangular platform in the water. A rollercoaster and several other structures are visible. The pier extends into the water at right and continues past the edge of the image. The city of Long Beach is at left and is composed of hundreds of densely packed rectangular buildings, broken up occasionally by large trees.

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Title Aerial view of Long Beach, showing the pier and the amusement park, ca.1915

Subject Amusement parks (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Long Beach -- General views -- Pier and pike (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 1915

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, 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 1915

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-m5816

Identifier 31301 (accession number), CHS-31301 (call number), CHS-31301 (filename), isla id: 1-32-141 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5831 (legacy record id), chs-m5816 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5928 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5831

Unique identifier UC127778

Legacy Identifier CHS-31301.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.9 in × 12.7 in at 300dpi
48.0 cm × 32.3 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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