California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

View of Long Wharf looking towards Pacific Palisades, ca.1895

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View of Long Wharf looking towards Pacific Palisades, ca.1895

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Photograph of a view of Long Wharf looking towards Pacific Palisades, ca.1895. The wooden planks and embedded railcar tracks of the wharf are pictured to the right, a woman and a young child just visible walking along the guard-rail. To the left, the Pacific shore extends, with homes visible on the bank in the distance. Behind them, the tall cliffs of the palisades are visible.

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Title View of Long Wharf looking towards Pacific Palisades, ca.1895

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1895

Subject Los Angeles City -- Pacific Palisades -- Mile Long Pier (subject), Ocean (lcsh), piers (lcsh), piers (adlf), Railroads (lcsh), Wharves (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Long Wharf (manmade features), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Pacific Palisades (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1895

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)

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-m19944

Identifier 12909 (accession number), CHS-12909 (call number), CHS-12909 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19760 (legacy record id), chs-m19944 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-3587 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19760

Unique identifier UC121954

Legacy Identifier CHS-12909.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.8 in × 5.8 in at 300dpi
52.9 cm × 14.8 cm at 300dpi

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Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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