California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the Charles F. Harper residence at the entrance to Laurel Canyon, Hollywood, 1898

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Exterior view of the Charles F. Harper residence at the entrance to Laurel Canyon, Hollywood, 1898

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Charles F. Harper residence at the entrance to Laurel Canyon, Hollywood, 1898. A man in a suit and hat, possibly Harper, stands in the foreground at the center of what appears to be the beginning of an orchard. A three-story Victorian-style mansion stands at the foot of the mountains behind him in the distance. Picture file card reads: "Harper and Reynolds".

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Title Exterior view of the Charles F. Harper residence at the entrance to Laurel Canyon, Hollywood, 1898

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

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1898

Subject Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), canyons (lcsh), Dwellings (lcsh), Harper, Charles F. (subject), Los Angeles -- Hollywood -- General views (file heading), residential sites (adlf), Reynolds (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1898

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegatives, 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)

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-m3195

Identifier 7514 (accession number), CHS-7514 (call number), CHS-7514 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4155 (legacy record id), chs-m3195 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3267 (legacy record id), 1-31-197 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4155

Unique identifier UC118682

Legacy Identifier CHS-7514.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.8 in × 16.6 in at 300dpi
52.8 cm × 42.2 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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