California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Santa Monica Canyon and Long Wharf of Port of Los Angeles, ca.1900

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Santa Monica Canyon and Long Wharf of Port of Los Angeles, ca.1900

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Photograph of Santa Monica Canyon and Long Wharf of Port of Los Angeles, ca.1900. The beach runs diagonally across the image. A few buildings are in the mouth of the canyon. The mountains along the Pacific coastline are visible in the distance. A long dock extends from the beach on the right to a large ship in the open ocean on the left.

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Title Santa Monica Canyon and Long Wharf of Port of Los Angeles, ca.1900

Subject Beaches (lcsh), Beaches (adlf), Los Angeles City -- Pacific Palisades (file heading), piers (lcsh), Santa Monica (subject), Santa Monica (LA) -- Santa Monica Canyon (subject)

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 : glass photonegative, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3463

Identifier 842 (accession number), CHS-842 (call number), CHS-842 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4414 (legacy record id), chs-m3463 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3537 (legacy record id), 1-54- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4414

Unique identifier UC119039

Legacy Identifier CHS-842.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.7 in × 12.7 in at 300dpi
42.6 cm × 32.4 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

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

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