Sailing ships tied up along the pier at San Pedro Harbor, Los Angeles, ca.1885

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Photograph of sailing ships tied up along the pier at San Pedro Harbor, Los Angeles, ca.1885. The Eliza Miller from San Francisco is in the center. The ships are docked next to the pier in pairs and all of their sails are down. A Southern Pacific Railroad car is located on the pier to left.

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Title Sailing ships tied up along the pier at San Pedro Harbor, Los Angeles, ca.1885

Subject Eliza Miller (Ship) (corporate name), Freight and freightage (lcsh), Harbors (lcsh), Harbors (adlf), Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- Los Angeles Harbor -- General views -- 1870's (file heading), Railroads (lcsh), Shipping (lcsh), ships (lcsh), Southern Pacific Railroad (corporate name)

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 1885

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 1885

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-m1999

Identifier 6095 (accession number), CHS-6095 (call number), CHS-6095 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2845 (legacy record id), chs-m1999 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2058 (legacy record id), 1-50-40 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2845

Unique identifier UC117211

Legacy Identifier CHS-6095.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.3 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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