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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Boardwalk in front of the Playa Del Rey Pavilion, ca.1908
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Boardwalk in front of the Playa Del Rey Pavilion, ca.1908
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Description
Photograph of the boardwalk in front of the Playa Del Rey Pavilion, ca.1908. The pagoda-style Pavilion is on the left of the image and towers over the wooden boardwalk below. There are many tourists crowding the boardwalk, down from Los Angeles on the Balloon Trolley trip. The Del Rey Hotel is visible in the background on the right. Playa Del Rey flourished as a resort from 1902-1912.
Asset Metadata
Title
Boardwalk in front of the Playa Del Rey Pavilion, ca.1908
Subject
Del Rey Hotel
(subject),
Hotels, taverns, etc.
(lcsh),
Lagoons
(lcsh),
Los Angeles County -- Playa Del Rey
(file heading),
piers
(adlf),
Playa Del Rey Pavilion
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Playa del Rey
(city or populated place),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1908-01-20
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(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
1908-01-20
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1996
Identifier
10528 (
accession number
), CHS-10528 (
call number
), CHS-10528 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2842 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1996 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-2055 (
legacy record id
), 1-56- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2842
Unique identifier
UC117024
Legacy Identifier
CHS-10528.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.1 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
51.0 cm × 40.8 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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