California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Panorama of Pasadena, looking west from Marengo Avenue, 1882

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Panorama of Pasadena, looking west from Marengo Avenue, 1882

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Photographic panorama of Pasadena, looking west from Marengo Avenue, 1882. The school can be seen at right on the corner of Colorado Street and Fair Oaks Street. Another building, this one a house, is visible at center, just off the avenue, which cuts from the left to the right of the photo. The space between buildings is filled with saplings that have been placed an equal distance apart.

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Title Panorama of Pasadena, looking west from Marengo Avenue, 1882

Subject agricultural sites (adlf), Orange (lcsh), Orchards (lcsh), Pasadena -- General (file heading), Schools (lcsh), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

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-m6000

Identifier 6460 (accession number), CHS-6460 (call number), CHS-6460 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6102 (legacy record id), chs-m6000 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6108 (legacy record id), 1-37-98 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6102

Unique identifier UC128089

Legacy Identifier CHS-6460.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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