California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Farmland and the Los Angeles River looking north from Elysian Park toward Mount Washington, 1895-1915

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Farmland and the Los Angeles River looking north from Elysian Park toward Mount Washington, 1895-1915

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Photograph of farmland and the Los Angeles River looking north from Elysian Park toward Mount Washington, 1895-1915. Agricultural plots create a patchwork landscape throughout, while a river can be seen cutting through the farmland across center. There is a slight bend in the river at right, and several homes can be seen beyond the river. Mountains are visible in the background.

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Title Farmland and the Los Angeles River looking north from Elysian Park toward Mount Washington, 1895-1915

Subject Agriculture (lcsh), Canals (adlf), Elysian Park (subject), Engineering -- Aqueducts -- General (file heading), Los Angeles -- Los Angeles River (file heading), Los Angeles -- Parks -- Elysian Park (file heading), Parks (lcsh), rivers (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1895/1915

Type images

Format 4 photographs : photonegative, glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1895/1915

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3602

Identifier 2209 (accession number), CHS-2209 (call number), CHS-2209 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4538 (legacy record id), chs-m3602 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10233 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3677 (legacy record id), 1-110- (microfiche number), 1-91- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4538

Unique identifier UC118820

Legacy Identifier CHS-2209.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.4 in × 15.8 in at 300dpi
51.9 cm × 40.1 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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