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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Earthquake damage at the Dominguez Seminary in Compton, March 10, 1933
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Earthquake damage at the Dominguez Seminary in Compton, March 10, 1933
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Description
Photograph of earthquake damage at the Dominguez Seminary in Compton, March 10, 1933. A large concrete fountain is at center and three priests are gathered around it. The seminary is behind them and a large section of the adobe archways that line the covered walkways has fallen down. The terracotta tile roof has been damaged by a large semi-circular piece of adobe, and many adobe bricks are on the ground around the clergymen.
Asset Metadata
Title
Earthquake damage at the Dominguez Seminary in Compton, March 10, 1933
Subject
Dominguez Seminary
(subject),
Earthquakes
(lcsh),
Los Angeles County -- Compton
(file heading),
religious facilities
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Compton
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1933-03-10
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm.
(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
1933-03-10
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2614
Identifier
14145 (
accession number
), CHS-14145 (
call number
), CHS-14145 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-3526 (
legacy record id
), chs-m2614 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-2676 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
3526
Unique identifier
UC120632
Legacy Identifier
CHS-14145.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.2 in × 15.2 in at 300dpi
48.8 cm × 38.7 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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