California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Live oak tree in the middle of Pasadena's Orange Grove Avenue, ca.1905

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Live oak tree in the middle of Pasadena's Orange Grove Avenue, ca.1905

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Photograph of a live oak tree in the middle of Pasadena's Orange Grove Avenue, ca.1905. The tall oak tree is alone in the middle of the unpaved street except for a chair near the trunk on the right side. The street itself is lined with pepper and palm trees, as well as broad sidewalks and utility poles. There is a house in the distance on the right side, its chimney and roof visible over a row of dense trees.

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Title Live oak tree in the middle of Pasadena's Orange Grove Avenue, ca.1905

Subject Los Angeles County -- Pasadena -- Streets -- Orange Grove Avenue (file heading), Oak (lcsh), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Trees (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Orange Grove Avenue (roadway), Pasadena (city or populated place), 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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m6005

Identifier 9968 (accession number), CHS-9968 (call number), CHS-9968 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6107 (legacy record id), chs-m6005 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6113 (legacy record id), 1-37-169 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6107

Unique identifier UC128393

Legacy Identifier CHS-9968.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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