California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Avalon Bay and Sugarloaf, ca.1887

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View of Avalon Bay and Sugarloaf, ca.1887

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Photograph of a view of Avalon Bay and Sugarloaf, ca.1887. Several boats can be seen out in the bay: two sailboats, one of which is Capt. Alonso Wheeler's Ruby Schooner, are seen with two small flatboats in the portion of the bay in front of the mountain ridge and hill pictured in the background. A Warrior steamboat can be seen in the distance between the ridge and the hill. Picture file card reads: "His [Captain Wheeler's] daughter Annie and Genevieve at Baldwin Park.".

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Title View of Avalon Bay and Sugarloaf, ca.1887

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1887

Subject bays (adlf), Boats and boating (lcsh), Catalina -- Avalon Harbor (file heading), Harbors (lcsh), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Islands (lcsh), Steamboats (lcsh), Wheeler, Annie (subject), Wheeler, Captain Alonso (subject), Wheeler, Genevive (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Avalon (city or populated place), California (states), islands: Santa Catalina Island (geographic subject), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1887

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5716

Identifier 7532 (accession number), CHS-7532 (call number), CHS-7532 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5744 (legacy record id), chs-m5716 (legacy record id), 1-26- (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5744

Unique identifier UC127862

Legacy Identifier CHS-7532.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.5 in × 11.4 in at 300dpi
47.1 cm × 29.1 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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