California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Luncheon held in honor of the Title Insurance and Trust Company in Los Angeles, September 11, 1951

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Luncheon held in honor of the Title Insurance and Trust Company in Los Angeles, September 11, 1951

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Photograph of a luncheon held in honor of the Title Insurance and Trust Company in Los Angeles, September 11, 1951. Fourteen men in suits and ties are seated around a long table at center. The table is set with light placemats and plates. The walls of the room are wood paneled. Most of the men around the table are middle-aged, and many have thinning hair. The luncheon was held in the private dining room of Ben R. Meyer, President of the Union Bank and Trust Company of Los Angeles.

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Title Luncheon held in honor of the Title Insurance and Trust Company in Los Angeles, September 11, 1951

Subject Associations, institutions, etc. (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Dinners and dining (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Los Angeles -- Social organizations (subject), Meyer, Ben R. (subject), Title Insurance and Trust Company (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1951-09-11

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 1951-09-11

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-m20553

Identifier 33314 (accession number), CHS-33314 (call number), CHS-33314 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24420 (legacy record id), chs-m20553 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24420

Unique identifier UC130716

Legacy Identifier CHS-33314.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.1 in × 10.4 in at 300dpi
33.5 cm × 26.5 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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