Group portrait of people standing in front of the Pine Avenue Pier in Long Beach, ca.1895

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Photographic group portrait of people standing in front of the Pine Avenue Pier in Long Beach, ca.1895. Eight people are posed in a line at center. There are three men and five women, and all are looking directly at the viewer. All of the women are wearing long dresses and large hats, while the men are wearing dark suits and hats. The group is standing on wet sand near the beach. The wooden pier behind them extends from the shore at left into the ocean at right, and several structures are visible at the end.

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Title Group portrait of people standing in front of the Pine Avenue Pier in Long Beach, ca.1895

Subject Beaches (adlf), Beaches (lcsh), Long Beach -- General -- Beach scenes (file heading), People (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Long Beach (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1895

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

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5850

Identifier 14345 (accession number), CHS-14345 (call number), CHS-14345 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5863 (legacy record id), chs-m5850 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5958 (legacy record id), 1-32- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5863

Unique identifier UC127547

Legacy Identifier CHS-14345.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.7 in × 15.9 in at 300dpi
50.0 cm × 40.5 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

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