California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

The Long Beach and San Pedro Pacific Electric line looking north, ca.1905

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The Long Beach and San Pedro Pacific Electric line looking north, ca.1905

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Photograph of the Long Beach and San Pedro Pacific Electric line looking north, ca.1905. The tracks (at right) curves towards the left and continues across the body of water and into the distance. Several pieces of wood litter the marsh next to the tracks (foreground).

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Title The Long Beach and San Pedro Pacific Electric line looking north, ca.1905

Subject Electric railroads (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Long Beach -- General views (file heading), Pacific Electric Railway (subject), transportation features (adlf)

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 : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1905

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5789

Identifier 8473 (accession number), CHS-8473 (call number), CHS-8473 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5805 (legacy record id), chs-m5789 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5911 (legacy record id), 1-32-72 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5805

Unique identifier UC127798

Legacy Identifier CHS-8473.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.6 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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