California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Birdseye view of Sonora Town looking north from For Moore Hill (and/or residence of J.W. Robinson?), Los Angeles, ca.1900

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Birdseye view of Sonora Town looking north from For Moore Hill (and/or residence of J.W. Robinson?), Los Angeles, ca.1900

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Photograph of a birdseye view of Sonora Town looking north from For Moore Hill (and/or residence of J.W. Robinson?), Los Angeles, ca.1900. To the right, a large, Victorian mansion sits on a hill with two tiers of stone steps leading up to it. Further in the foreground and at center, several modest, single-level ranch-houses are situated on the slope of the hill near the road at left where groups of houses are spaced closely together. A windmill can be see next to the leftmost of the ranch-houses. A larch, arcing hill can be seen spreading itself across the horizon.

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Title Birdseye view of Sonora Town looking north from For Moore Hill (and/or residence of J.W. Robinson?), Los Angeles, ca.1900

Subject Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), cities (adlf), Dwellings (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Los Angeles -- Sonora Town -- General (file heading), Plazas (lcsh), Robinson, J. W. (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Castelar Street north (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Sonora Town (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1895/1905

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 1895/1905

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m4937

Identifier 6719 (accession number), CHS-6719 (call number), CHS-6719 (filename), isla id: 1-15-88 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25394 (legacy record id), chs-m4937 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5035 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25394

Unique identifier UC128631

Legacy Identifier CHS-6719.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.3 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
44.0 cm × 35.1 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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