California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Southern Pacific's Long Wharf, or Mile Long Pier in Los Angeles, ca.1900

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View of Southern Pacific's Long Wharf, or Mile Long Pier in Los Angeles, ca.1900

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Photograph of a view of Southern Pacific's Long Wharf, or Mile Long Pier in Los Angeles, ca.1900. The wharf, 4700 feet long and the longest wharf in the world at the time of its creation, is pictured at center, snaking out towards the right distance of the image. In the foreground, a train of empty freight cars can be seen on the leftmost of the two sets of railroad tracks that run along the wharf. The wharf was begun in 1892 and completed two years later in 1894.

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Title View of Southern Pacific's Long Wharf, or Mile Long Pier in Los Angeles, ca.1900

Subject Los Angeles City -- Pacific Palisades -- Mile Long Pier (file heading), Ocean (lcsh), piers (lcsh), piers (adlf), Railroads (lcsh), Wharves (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 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 1900

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3509

Identifier 12862 (accession number), CHS-12862 (call number), CHS-12862 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4455 (legacy record id), chs-m3509 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-3585 (legacy record id), 1-121- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4455

Unique identifier UC119014

Legacy Identifier CHS-12862.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.5 in × 16.7 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 42.5 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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