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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Portrait of James A. Foshay (1856-1914) at his desk, ca.1902
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Portrait of James A. Foshay (1856-1914) at his desk, ca.1902
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Photograph of a portrait of James A. Foshay (1856-1914) at his desk, ca.1902. A telephone is attached to the corner of a roll-top desk behind him on a specially designed bracket. He sits in a leather upholstered desk chair reading a piece of paper in his left hand. He wears a full beard and moustache but is bald on the top of his head. His pince-nez spectacles sit on a letter on the desk in front of him. Foschay was Monrovia's first regular teacher and school principal, and later was Superintendant of Schools in Los Angeles. Legible writing includes: on telephone "1 A, 2 B, 3 C, 4 D, 5 E, 6 F, 7 G, 8 H, 9 I, 0 J", "Application for membership", letter on desk "Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Schools, Los Angeles County, California, [...], Hon. Jam. A. Foshay, President of the Fr[...], 841 [...] Figueroa St., Dear Sir and Brother[...], Owing to a [...] the meeting held in [...] I am informed [...] elected Dr. Knigh [...] the fact that I [...] at the [...] election of officers [...] I appeal to you [...] have me installed [...] Philips".
Asset Metadata
Title
Portrait of James A. Foshay (1856-1914) at his desk, ca.1902
Subject
educational facilities
(adlf),
Foschay, James A.
(subject),
Foshay, James A.
(subject),
Los Angeles County -- Monrovia
(file heading),
Portraits -- F
(file heading),
School principals
(lcsh),
Schools
(lcsh),
Teachers
(lcsh),
Telephone
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Monrovia
(city or populated place),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1902
Type
images
Format
4 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm., 21 x 16 cm., 17 x 21 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1902
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5955
Identifier
3763 (
accession number
), CHS-3763 (
call number
), CHS-3763 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-5965 (
legacy record id
), chs-m5955 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-13768 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-6063 (
legacy record id
), 1-69-1 (
microfiche number
), 1-90-210 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
5965
Unique identifier
UC127855
Legacy Identifier
CHS-3763.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.8 in × 12.9 in at 300dpi
42.8 cm × 32.8 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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