California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, California, ca.1904-1909

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Exterior view of Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, California, ca.1904-1909

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Photograph of an exterior view of Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, California, ca.1904-1909. The great dome (the Crosby Dome?) and a smaller dome sit atop a large building at center. The astronomers' residence is the three-story building in front of this building. Another small dome and a complex of smaller buildings are visible at left on another hump of the mountain slope. A road runs along the crest of the mountain in the foreground at right. Low vegetation grows in the general vicinity.

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Title Exterior view of Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, California, ca.1904-1909

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1904/1909

Subject Lick Observatory (subject), Observatories (lcsh), Observatories -- Lick Observatory (file heading), research facilities (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), mountains: Mount Hamilton (geographic subject), Santa Clara (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1904/1909

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 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)

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-m10552

Identifier CHS-3940 (call number), CHS-3940 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15681 (legacy record id), chs-m10552 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10700 (legacy record id), 1-100-7 (microfiche number), USC (project), 3940 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15681

Unique identifier UC143759

Legacy Identifier CHS-3940.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.9 in × 12.8 in at 300dpi
43.0 cm × 32.5 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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