California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Two drawings of Porterville depicting the public school and Pioneer Store, 1900-1940

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Two drawings of Porterville depicting the public school and Pioneer Store, 1900-1940

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Photograph of two drawings of Porterville depicting the public school and Pioneer Store, 1900-1940. A drawing of a two-story school building is visible in the top half. The brick building has a covered entryway, tower, and sloped roof. Multiple arched windows are evenly spaced throughout. A paved sidewalk is visible running to the left and right next to the building. Trees and grass are depicted around the building, while hills are depicted in the background. The bottom half depicts storefronts lining a sidewalk, which runs left to right. The two-story building contains two towers and a balcony. At center towards the roof the building reads, "Putnam Block 1890". "R.P. Putnam Pioneer Store" is written on five windows at street level. A woman holding a parasol and small dog at the end of a leash is depicted towards the left on the sidewalk, while a horse-drawn wagon is visible at right. Photoprint reads: "Pioneer Store, Heirs of R.P. Putnam".

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Title Two drawings of Porterville depicting the public school and Pioneer Store, 1900-1940

Subject buildings (adlf), Tulare County -- General (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Porterville (city or populated place), Tulare (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900/1940

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), 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 1900/1940

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-m19717

Identifier 45737 (accession number), CHS-45737 (call number), CHS-45737 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19542 (legacy record id), chs-m19717 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14317 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19542

Unique identifier UC121711

Legacy Identifier CHS-45737.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.8 in × 21.0 in at 300dpi
42.7 cm × 53.3 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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