Long Beach Pier and beach crowded with horses and carriages, ca.1900

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Photograph of the beach at Long Beach crowded with dozens of unhitched horses and carriages as their owners sunbathe and frolic on the beach and in the surf beyond. The Long Beach pier juts out into the water in the background. It and the adjacent pavillion are crowded with hundreds of people.

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Title Long Beach Pier and beach crowded with horses and carriages, ca.1900

Subject Beaches (adlf), Carriages and carts (lcsh), Long Beach -- General -- Pike and pier (file heading), Long Beach (LA) -- General Views (Pier and Pike) (subject), piers (lcsh), Transportation (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 microfilm frame : negative, b&w ; 35 mm.; 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), microfilms (aat), photographic prints (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 1900

Contributor Puck Collection (provenance)

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-m5840

Identifier 4780 (accession number), CHS-4780 (call number), CHS-4780 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5854 (legacy record id), chs-m5840 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5946 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5947 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5948 (legacy record id), 1-32- (microfiche number), G (microfilm reel number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5854

Unique identifier UC127681

Legacy Identifier CHS-4780.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.3 in × 16.6 in at 300dpi
51.7 cm × 42.1 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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