California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the Pio Pico mansion at El Ranchito, showing two women, Whittier, ca.1907

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Exterior view of the Pio Pico mansion at El Ranchito, showing two women, Whittier, ca.1907

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Photograph of two women outside the Pio Pico mansion at El Ranchito, Rancho Paso de Bartolo in Whittier, ca.1907. The rundown mansion is at left and is a long, two-story adobe building. Several rectangular wood-framed doorways and windows are visible on the adobe walls. Much of the spackle is missing from the adobe. The two women are visible in the distance at center. One is standing and wearing a white dress, while the other is kneeling and is wearing a black dress. There are two skinny trees in front of the house at right. Picture file card reads "Westvale, north end".

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Title Exterior view of the Pio Pico mansion at El Ranchito, showing two women, Whittier, ca.1907

Subject Adobe houses (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Los Angeles County -- Whittier -- Architecture -- Domestic (file heading), Pico, Pio (subject), Women (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1907

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (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 1907

Creator Ramsey (photographer)

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-m6762

Identifier 11409 (accession number), CHS-11409 (call number), CHS-11409 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6822 (legacy record id), chs-m6762 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6876 (legacy record id), 1-33- (microfiche number), 1-58-25 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6822

Unique identifier UC121616

Legacy Identifier CHS-11409.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.8 in × 12.9 in at 300dpi
45.2 cm × 32.8 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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