Portrait of Thaddeus S.C. Lowe and family, ca.1890

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Photographic portrait of Thaddeus S.C. Lowe and family, ca.1890. The portrait is matted in an oval cutout. Approximately three or four generations appear to be represented in the group of seventeen people (five men, three boys, six women and four girls). Mount Lowe was named after Thaddeus Lowe.

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Title Portrait of Thaddeus S.C. Lowe and family, ca.1890

Subject Family (lcsh), Lowe, Thaddeus (subject), Lowe, Thaddeus S.C. (subject), Portraits -- Lowe (file heading), residential sites (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1890

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm., 20 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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

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-m15453

Identifier 2478 (accession number), CHS-2478 (call number), CHS-2478 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-14271 (legacy record id), chs-m15453 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13889 (legacy record id), 1-90-370 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 14271

Unique identifier UC144055

Legacy Identifier CHS-2478.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.6 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
42.3 cm × 34.0 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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