Three shacks built directly on the sand, San Pedro, ca.1985

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Photograph of three shacks built directly on the sand, San Pedro, ca.1985. Three small shacks stand in the soft, light sand at center with a wooden frame leaning on their front walls. Thin, short trees stand in front of the houses while a wooden fence stands behind them in the background on the far left.

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Title Three shacks built directly on the sand, San Pedro, ca.1985

Subject Dwellings (lcsh), Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- General views (file heading), residential sites (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1985

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 5 x 10 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 1985

Contributor Wanamaker, Marc (donated 1985) (donor)

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-m1029

Identifier 44832 (accession number), CHS-44832 (call number), CHS-44832 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1915 (legacy record id), chs-m1029 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1063 (legacy record id), 85-5-13 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1915

Unique identifier UC117285

Legacy Identifier CHS-44832.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 22.1 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
56.2 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

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