California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of the Santa Monica Bluff, looking north from Ninety-nine Steps, ca.1886-1887

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View of the Santa Monica Bluff, looking north from Ninety-nine Steps, ca.1886-1887

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Photograph of a view of the Santa Monica Bluff, looking north from Ninety-nine Steps, ca.1886-1887. Striated cliffs line the narrow beach to the right, the Pacific Ocean lapping in from the left. Shrub growth and reeds populate the beach at the bottom of the cliffs.

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Title View of the Santa Monica Bluff, looking north from Ninety-nine Steps, ca.1886-1887

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1886/1887

Subject Beaches (lcsh), cliffs (lcsh), coastal zones (adlf), Santa Monica -- General (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1886/1887

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, 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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m6619

Identifier 7100 (accession number), CHS-7100 (call number), CHS-7100 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6687 (legacy record id), chs-m6619 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6734 (legacy record id), 1-54- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6687

Unique identifier UC121006

Legacy Identifier CHS-7100.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.6 in × 14.5 in at 300dpi
47.2 cm × 37.0 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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