California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Elysian Park and farmland below, Los Angeles, ca.1898-1900

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Elysian Park and farmland below, Los Angeles, ca.1898-1900

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Photograph of Elysian Park, Los Angeles, and adjacent farmland, showing an open water irrigation ditch (Zanza Madre) for an early water system, ca.1898-1900. Scrub oak forests the side of the hill.

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Title Elysian Park and farmland below, Los Angeles, ca.1898-1900

Subject Agriculture (lcsh), Botany (lcsh), Botany -- General (file heading), Elysian Park (subject), Engineering -- Aqueducts #4 -- Irrigation ditches, wells (file heading), Irrigation (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Parks -- Elysian Park (file heading), Parks (adlf), Parks (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1898/1900

Type images

Format 4 photographs :glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1898/1900

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3604

Identifier 2001 (accession number), CHS-2001 (call number), CHS-2001 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4540 (legacy record id), chs-m3604 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10238 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14192 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14195 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3679 (legacy record id), 1- (microfiche number), 1-110- (microfiche number), 1-82-98 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4540

Unique identifier UC118664

Legacy Identifier CHS-2001.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 22.7 in × 18.1 in at 300dpi
57.6 cm × 45.9 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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