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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Steam engine trailing its coal car on the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Rail Road, 1890
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Steam engine trailing its coal car on the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Rail Road, 1890
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Description
Photograph of a steam engine trailing its coal car on the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Rail Road, 1890. Three men adorn the locomotive, which is expelling steam at the right of the photo. The engineer peers out the window of his cabin with two men in suits behind him, one on the engine and one on the ground. The side of the coal car reads "L.A. & S.G. V. R. R.".
Asset Metadata
Title
Steam engine trailing its coal car on the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Rail Road, 1890
Subject
Locomotives
(lcsh),
Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad
(subject),
railroad features
(adlf),
Railroads
(lcsh),
Transportation -- Railroads -- Southern California -- San Gabriel Railroad
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Pasadena
(city or populated place),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1890
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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
1890
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.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12332
Identifier
6484 (
accession number
), CHS-6484 (
call number
), CHS-6484 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-11884 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12332 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12486 (
legacy record id
), 1-119-33 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
11884
Unique identifier
UC131312
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6484.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.8 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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