California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Early automobiles parked for the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, ca.1913

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Early automobiles parked for the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, ca.1913

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Photograph of early automobiles parked for the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, ca.1913. Railroad tracks cut across the image from the middle right to the bottom left, while on a parallel angle, a large lot of automobiles can be seen parked alongside the mountains, their owners having arrived to see the opening of the aqueduct.

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Title Early automobiles parked for the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, ca.1913

Subject aqueducts (lcsh), Automobiles (lcsh), Parking lots (lcsh), railroad features (adlf), Transportation -- Automobiles -- General (file heading), Water-supply (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1913

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, 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 1913

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-m11689

Identifier 12693 (accession number), CHS-12693 (call number), CHS-12693 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11102 (legacy record id), chs-m11689 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-11840 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11102

Unique identifier UC118632

Legacy Identifier CHS-12693.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.0 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 33.2 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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