California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Birdseye view of Santa Monica Beach looking north from Palisades, showing houses, ca.1920

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Birdseye view of Santa Monica Beach looking north from Palisades, showing houses, ca.1920

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Photograph of a birdseye view of Santa Monica Beach looking north from Palisades, ca.1920. A small collection of wooden buildings is on the beach in the foreground at left. Rows of cars are parked in front of these buildings. A two lane highway runs along the coast at center, and running parallel to this road is a railroad with a two-car train. A steep cliff is visible at right, and a wooden fence runs along the top. Large mountains can be seen through the haze in the distance at right.

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Title Birdseye view of Santa Monica Beach looking north from Palisades, showing houses, ca.1920

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1920

Subject Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), Beaches (lcsh), Beaches (adlf), cliffs (lcsh), Roads (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1920

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)

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-m19813

Identifier 11509 (accession number), CHS-11509 (call number), CHS-11509 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19636 (legacy record id), chs-m19813 (legacy record id), 1-54- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19636

Unique identifier UC121913

Legacy Identifier CHS-11509.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.3 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
44.0 cm × 33.5 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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