California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Caldwell and Brothers General Store and Post Office in Spadra, California, ca.1880

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Caldwell and Brothers General Store and Post Office in Spadra, California, ca.1880

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Photograph of the Caldwell and Brothers General Store and Post Office in Spadra, California, ca.1880. Nine people stand on the uncovered wooden porch of the store. A shovel, broom, barrel, and other wares sit on the porch. A man on a horse stands in the dirt road in front. Legible signs read: "Spadra Post Office & General Store, Caldwell & Bro.", "Photographic car", "W.A. Vales Photographic Gallery".

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Title Caldwell and Brothers General Store and Post Office in Spadra, California, ca.1880

Subject Caldwell (subject), Caldwell and Brothers General Store and Post Office (subject), commercial sites (adlf), Los Angeles County -- Spadra (file heading), Photographers (lcsh), Postal service -- Buildings (lcsh), Stores, Retail (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1880/1890

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.; 2 Photoprints : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. (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)

Date Created 1880/1890

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Contributor Roy Fryer (provenance)

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-m6719

Identifier 4975 (accession number), CHS-4975 (call number), CHS-4975 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6754 (legacy record id), chs-m6719 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6833 (legacy record id), 1-40- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6754

Unique identifier UC121944

Legacy Identifier CHS-4975.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.6 in × 12.9 in at 300dpi
42.3 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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