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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Bridge across the Arroyo Seco at Garvanza, showing the first cable-car to cross it, ca.1895
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Bridge across the Arroyo Seco at Garvanza, showing the first cable-car to cross it, ca.1895
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Photograph of a bridge across the Arroyo Seco at Garvanza, showing the first cable-car to cross it, ca.1895. A group of eighteen people pose around and in front of a cable-car coming across the trestle from Cawston's Ostrich Farm in South Pasadena, approaching the U.S.C. College of Fine Arts in Garvanza. The man at the controls is named G.J. Roller. The L.A. and San Gabriel Valley Railroad, completed in 1885, is visible in the background crossing a second trestle across the arroyo. A hill is visible in the left distance.
Asset Metadata
Title
Bridge across the Arroyo Seco at Garvanza, showing the first cable-car to cross it, ca.1895
Subject
Bridges
(adlf),
Electric railroads
(lcsh),
General Subjects -- Transportation -- Street Railways
(file heading),
Los Angeles -- Highland Park -- Arroyo Seco
(file heading),
Pacific Electric Railroad
(subject),
Roller, G.J.
(subject),
Transportation -- Rail -- Street railroads -- Electric cars #2
(file heading),
transportation features
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
canyons: Arroyo Seco
(geographic subject),
Garvanza
(city or populated place),
Highland Park
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Pasadena Avenue between Avenue 66 and Monterey Road
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1895
Type
images
Format
3 photographs : photonegative, transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat),
transparencies
(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
1895
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
(photographer)
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-m2024
Identifier
7073 (
accession number
), CHS-7073 (
call number
), CHS-7073 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2964 (
legacy record id
), chs-m2024 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-12588 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-2083 (
legacy record id
), 1-120-46 (
microfiche number
), 1-30- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2964
Unique identifier
UC117227
Legacy Identifier
CHS-7073.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.5 in × 12.1 in at 300dpi
47.0 cm × 30.7 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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