California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Hermosa Vista Hotel on Columbia Hill in Pasadena, ca.1885

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Hermosa Vista Hotel on Columbia Hill in Pasadena, ca.1885

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Photograph of the Hermosa Vista Hotel on Columbia Hill in Pasadena, ca.1885. Men an women sit and stand on the wraparound porch of the two-story hotel which sports shuttered windows, a balcony, and a clapboard veneer. Two men on horses stand in front to the left and at center, and another, tending a wagon hitched to two horses, stands at right. Steamer trunks are visible on the porch at right, near which a woman stands.

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Title Hermosa Vista Hotel on Columbia Hill in Pasadena, ca.1885

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1885

Subject buildings (adlf), Hermosa Vista Hotel (subject), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Pasadena -- Architecture -- Commercial -- -Hotels -- General (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Columbia Hill (roadway), Los Angeles (counties), Pasadena (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1885

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)

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-m6142

Identifier 6493 (accession number), CHS-6493 (call number), CHS-6493 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6239 (legacy record id), chs-m6142 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6250 (legacy record id), 1-37-124 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6239

Unique identifier UC128085

Legacy Identifier CHS-6493.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

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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