California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Old fountain at Rancho La Merced in Montebello, [s.d.]

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Old fountain at Rancho La Merced in Montebello, [s.d.]

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View of an old fountain at Rancho La Merced in Montebello, [s.d.]. The fountain is at center and is made of concrete and surrounded by stones. There are two tiers from which water can pour down into the bottom basin. There is a stone planter running around the circumference of the fountain, and it is full of small plants. The area around the fountain is taken up by large plants and trees, and a series of short round bushes is in the foreground. Photoprint reads: "Sanchez lost this rancho li [sic] Lucky Baldwin. Montebello -- old fountain of Rancho La Merced".; Nowadays, the Juan Matias Sanchez adobe's adress is 946 N Adobe Ave., Montebello, CA 90640.

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Title Old fountain at Rancho La Merced in Montebello, [s.d.]

Subject Adobe houses (lcsh), Baldwin, Lucky (subject), Los Angeles County -- Montebello (file heading), Parks (adlf), Sanchez, Juan Matias (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place buildings: Rancho La Merced (geographic subject), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Montebello (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 18 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)

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-m6521

Identifier CHS-11525 (call number), CHS-11525 (filename), 11525 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6603 (legacy record id), chs-m6521 (legacy record id), 1-33- (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6603

Unique identifier UC116853

Legacy Identifier CHS-11525.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.2 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
46.2 cm × 33.6 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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