California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Postcard showing an exterior view of a "new" Dutch Colonial-style house, Oakland, CA, ca.1904

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Postcard showing an exterior view of a "new" Dutch Colonial-style house, Oakland, CA, ca.1904

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Photograph of a postcard showing an exterior view of a "new" Dutch Colonial-style house in Oakland, California, ca.1904. At center, the two-story home is pictured turned slightly to the left, steps leading up to its brick porch while a long extension of the home stretches behind the gambrel roof. Handwritten transcription from back of postcard read: "Mr. E.C. Shipley, 744 East 8th St., Los Angeles, Cal.". Typed transcription read: "post card", "the address to be written on this side", "place 1-cent stamp here". Additional information: The house is still extant (as of August 2019). It's located at the southeast corner of 31st Street and West Street in Oakland, California. It was the home of one of E.C. Shipley's daughters. Originally numbered 709 at the 31st Street, the house is currently (August 2019) numbered 729 at the same street.

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Title Postcard showing an exterior view of a "new" Dutch Colonial-style house, Oakland, CA, ca.1904

Subject Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Domestic -- Adams Boulevard (file heading), residential sites (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 709 31st Street (roadway), Alameda (counties), California (states), Oakland (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Geocoordinate 37.820772, -122.273152 (point)

Temporal Subject 1904

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 8 x 12 cm. (aacr2), 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 1904

Contributor Goodwin, Eugene K. (contributor)

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-m1193

Identifier 41416 (accession number), CHS-41416 (call number), CHS-41416 (filename), isla id: S-4372 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2071 (legacy record id), chs-m1193 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-1237 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2071

Unique identifier UC117919

Legacy Identifier CHS-41416.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.9 in × 12.8 in at 300dpi
50.6 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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