California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

The first house in Ontario, built by the Chaffee brothers, ca.1882

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The first house in Ontario, built by the Chaffee brothers, ca.1882

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Photograph of the first house in Ontario, built by the Chaffee brothers, ca.1882. The single-story house features a spacious covered porch and a dormer window that protrudes from the inclined roof. Several horse-drawn carriages are parked nearby. Another house and mountains are visible in the background. "First house built on the Ontario Colony Tract. It stood on Fourteenth Street and Second Street in back of Euclid Avenue. It was occupied by Don Andreno(?) Rubio(?) in 1882. Later house was moved to North Ontario. Was originally built by the Chaffee brothers." -- Ingersoll's History(?).

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Title The first house in Ontario, built by the Chaffee brothers, ca.1882

Subject Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), Carriages and carts (lcsh), Chaffee brothers (subject), Dwellings (lcsh), Horses (lcsh), housing areas (adlf), San Bernardino County -- Ontario (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Ontario (San Bernardino) (cities), San Bernardino (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1882

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 1882

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Contributor Luther A. Ingersoll Collection, Los Angeles Public Library (donor)

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-m5963

Identifier 6114 (accession number), CHS-6114 (call number), CHS-6114 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5973 (legacy record id), chs-m5963 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6071 (legacy record id), 1-40- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5973

Unique identifier UC127830

Legacy Identifier CHS-6114.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.1 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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