California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Panoramic view of Sonora Town in Los Angeles, north of Catholic Cemetery above Bishop Street, 1873

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Panoramic view of Sonora Town in Los Angeles, north of Catholic Cemetery above Bishop Street, 1873

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Photograph of a panoramic view of Sonora Town in Los Angeles, north of Catholic Cemetery above Bishop Street, 1873. The cemetery is visible in the foreground, dappled by trees, with Sonora Town visible in the background, full of residences and moving toward a hill on the horizon. Grass is visible in the extreme right foreground.

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Title Panoramic view of Sonora Town in Los Angeles, north of Catholic Cemetery above Bishop Street, 1873

Subject Catholic Cemetery (subject), Cemeteries (lcsh), Cemeteries (adlf), Los Angeles -- General views (1860-1870) (file heading), Los Angeles County -- Los Angeles -- Sonora Town -- General (file heading), Plazas (lcsh), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Bishop Road (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Sonora Town (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1873

Type images

Format 3 Photographs : photonegatives, transparency ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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)

Date Created 1873

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-m2521

Identifier 7054 (accession number), CHS-7054 (call number), CHS-7054 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3437 (legacy record id), chs-m2521 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2583 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5019 (legacy record id), 1-15-157 (microfiche number), 1-2-219 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3437

Unique identifier UC120629

Legacy Identifier CHS-7054.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.3 in × 15.1 in at 300dpi
49.2 cm × 38.5 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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