California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Travelers outside the Hotel Wilmore on opening day in Long Beach, 1887

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Travelers outside the Hotel Wilmore on opening day in Long Beach, 1887

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Photograph of the Hotel Wilmore on opening day in Long Beach, 1887. The two-story hotel (Long Beach's first) stands at center sporting a porch and balcony supported by colonnade as well as a clapboard veneer and other Victorian elements. A few abandoned crates and debris sit in front while guests arrange themselves in a horse-drawn streetcar behind. An American flag waves from the center of the hotel's roof, on which a weathervein is also visible. A man attends a horse-drawn wagon on the ground in the left background.

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Title Travelers outside the Hotel Wilmore on opening day in Long Beach, 1887

Subject buildings (adlf), Horse railroads (lcsh), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Long Beach -- Architecture -- Commercial (file heading), Willmore Hotel (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1887

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographic prints (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 1887

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

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m6451

Identifier 6523 (accession number), CHS-6523 (call number), CHS-6523 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6536 (legacy record id), chs-m6451 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6566 (legacy record id), 1-32-46 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6536

Unique identifier UC121163

Legacy Identifier CHS-6523.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.5 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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