California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Four men assessing the Evertsen Adobe in San Gabriel before it was to be destroyed, 1960

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Four men assessing the Evertsen Adobe in San Gabriel before it was to be destroyed, 1960

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Photograph of four men assessing the Evertsen Adobe in San Gabriel before it was to be destroyed, 1960. Four men are pictured in the foreground, standing on a leaf-strewn front yard. The lightly-colored adobe is pictured behind them, its center section jacketed in wood while the left side is made of brick. The men are identified from left as: Charles Fulkerson, Title Insurance and Trust; Thomas Workman Temple II, San Gabriel Mission Custodian; Norm Woest, Title Insurance and Trust; and Charles Elgert, President of the San Gabriel Historical Society and Postmaster.; The adobe was built in 1850 by John R. Evertsen, who was charged with taking the first U.S. Census of the City and County of Los Angeles.

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Title Four men assessing the Evertsen Adobe in San Gabriel before it was to be destroyed, 1960

Subject Adobe houses (lcsh), Elgert, Charles (subject), Evertsen Adobe (subject), Evertsen, John R. (subject), Fulkerson, Charles (subject), Los Angeles County -- San Gabriel -- General (file heading), residential sites (adlf), Temple, Thomas Workman II (subject), Woest, Norm (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1960-07

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1960-07

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-m6525

Identifier 12774 (accession number), CHS-12774 (call number), CHS-12774 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6606 (legacy record id), chs-m6525 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-6640 (legacy record id), 1-33- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6606

Unique identifier UC116719

Legacy Identifier CHS-12774.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.8 in × 16.7 in at 300dpi
53.0 cm × 42.6 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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