California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Santa Monica Boulevard entrance to Hollywood Cemetery, ca.1902-1903

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Santa Monica Boulevard entrance to Hollywood Cemetery, ca.1902-1903

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Photograph of the Santa Monica Boulevard entrance to Hollywood Cemetery, ca.1902-1903. The mission-style stone Otis Carillon building dominates the entrance. A wooden fence surrounds the cemetery at right, a wire fence at left. A dedication engraved below a cupola on a short tower next to an open gate reads "Hollywood Cemetery, 1902", below that "Hollywood Cemetery Association [...] officers".... The carillon was presented to the Cemetery by General Otis in memory of his wife, Eliza A. Otis. Additional information: The tower was dramatically reconfigured in 1904 to house the Eliza Otis (1833-1904) Memorial Bells commissioned by her friends. Circa 1932, the tower, covered porch and gatepost were demolished to make way for a new cemetery wall (the bells were moved to a new bell tower at a new cemetery entrance). The chapel was used as a shed to house the mechanical plant for the irrigation system for more than 60 years, until 1998. The chapel has now been rehabbed as a venue. C. C. Pierce is buried at this cemetery, now called "Hollywood Forever". He was married to Hattie Gower, the youngest of John and Mary Gower's five children (the whole family is buried at Hollywood Forever). In 1899 Mary Gower sold part of the Gower Ranch, which the family had owned since 1869 to James Lankershim (a family friend) and Issac Van Nuys to establish the cemetery.

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Title Santa Monica Boulevard entrance to Hollywood Cemetery, ca.1902-1903

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1902/1903

Subject Cemeteries (lcsh), Hollywood Cemetery (subject), Los Angeles City -- Hollywood -- Architecture -- Public buildings (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Hollywood (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Santa Monica Boulevard (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1902/1903

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm., 20 x 25 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)

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-m3315

Identifier 2475 (accession number), CHS-2475 (call number), CHS-2475 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4272 (legacy record id), chs-m3315 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3387 (legacy record id), 1-31-28 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4272

Unique identifier UC119035

Legacy Identifier CHS-2475.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.6 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
42.3 cm × 33.3 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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