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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Panoramic view of Sonora Town from Fort Moore Hill looking north over Castelar (or Castellar?) Street, ca.1885
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Panoramic view of Sonora Town from Fort Moore Hill looking north over Castelar (or Castellar?) Street, ca.1885
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Description
Photograph of a panoramic view of Sonora Town, from Fort Moore Hill looking north over Castelar (or Castellar?) Street, ca.1885. The town consists of street blocks of houses and small buildings. Mountains are visible in the distance.; "Sonoratown, former Mexican downtown residential neighborhood. Mexicans returning from the California Gold Rush in the mid-1850s settled in adobes north of the Plaza Church, along North Main and North Broadway, and on the hilly streets north and west of the Plaza, including Alpine and Buena Vista. The long, low, whitewashed adobes were homes and shops to poor, working-class Mexicans, many from the Mexican province of Sonora. The Plaza Church was their cultural anchor. By the early 1900s, however, the arrival of the railroad, the spread of industry and commerce, and the southward spread of real estate development all gradually undermined Sonoratown as a residential neighborhood." -- Leanord and Dale Pitt.
Asset Metadata
Title
Panoramic view of Sonora Town from Fort Moore Hill looking north over Castelar (or Castellar?) Street, ca.1885
Subject
cities
(adlf),
Los Angeles County -- Los Angeles -- Sonora Town -- General
(file heading),
Plazas
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Sonora Town
(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)
Date Created
1885
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-m4929
Identifier
6104 (
accession number
), CHS-6104 (
call number
), CHS-6104 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-25386 (
legacy record id
), chs-m4929 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-5027 (
legacy record id
), 1-15-71 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
25386
Unique identifier
UC128688
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6104.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.3 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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