California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Interior view of a gambling hall showing a faro game, ca.1900

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Interior view of a gambling hall showing a faro game, ca.1900

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Photograph of the interior view of a gambling hall showing a faro game, ca.1900. 13 men are gathered at the table -- out of which only a handful appear to be playing. Chips are piled on top of different cards in the centerpiece of the table. Everyone is watching the game attentively except for a few men (standing at left).; "Faro is an old game, with roots going back to the 15th Century and a game called 'Basset'. It attained its modern form at the court of Louis XIV. Despite this distinguished pedigree, its appeal in 19th Century America ran to all classes of society, from the banker to the '49er and was commonly called, among the 'baser sort', 'Bucking the Tiger'. Faro is not much played today, as it is a banking game and gambling houses tend to favor games where the odds are more clearly in favor of the house. In an honest Faro game, the punter's chances are just a little short of even of coming out ahead. Most dealers skewed those odds in their favor with some quite remarkable card shuffling and other ingenious ways of cheating." -- Walter Nelson.

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Title Interior view of a gambling hall showing a faro game, ca.1900

Subject Gambling (lcsh), Recreation -- Gambling (file heading), recreational facilities (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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

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-m11411

Identifier 5940 (accession number), CHS-5940 (call number), CHS-5940 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10833 (legacy record id), chs-m11411 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-11561 (legacy record id), 1-156- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10833

Unique identifier UC118579

Legacy Identifier CHS-5940.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.8 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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