California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Men firing a cannon for a Harbor Day celebration in San Pedro, ca.1889

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Men firing a cannon for a Harbor Day celebration in San Pedro, ca.1889

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Photograph of men firing a cannon for a Harbor Day celebration in San Pedro, ca.1889. A man at center stands slightly in front of the cannon which faces perpendicular to him. To the left of him, a second man crouches down attending to the cannon. Two women can be seen in the left background, one of which holds a parasol or umbrella. Smoke from the cannon fills the right side of the image. Picture file card reads "pre-harbor celebrations from hill behind town".

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Title Men firing a cannon for a Harbor Day celebration in San Pedro, ca.1889

Subject agricultural sites (adlf), Harbors (lcsh), Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- Drum Barracks (file heading), Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- Miscellaneous (file heading), Rites and ceremonies (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1899

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1899

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-m1005

Identifier 8527 (accession number), CHS-8527 (call number), CHS-8527 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1895 (legacy record id), chs-m1005 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1025 (legacy record id), 1-50-122 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1895

Unique identifier UC117964

Legacy Identifier CHS-8527.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.9 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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