California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Japanese abalone fisheries at White's Point, Palos Verdes, near San Pedro, ca.1905

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Japanese abalone fisheries at White's Point, Palos Verdes, near San Pedro, ca.1905

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Photograph of the Japanese abalone fisheries at White's Point, Palos Verdes, near San Pedro, California, ca.1905. About 4 men stand in a boat docked at a wooden shelter at the end of a jetty built of rocks. Another man stands on the jetty. A smaller empty boat is moored to a stake near by.

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Title Japanese abalone fisheries at White's Point, Palos Verdes, near San Pedro, ca.1905

Subject Abalone fisheries (lcsh), Fisheries (adlf), Fishing (lcsh), Industry -- Fishing (file heading), Japanese Americans (lcsh), Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- Commercial fishing (file heading), Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- Miscellaneous (file heading), Minorities -- Japanese (file heading), Shellfish trade (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1905

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 16 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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 1905

Contributor Mrs. Forbes (provenance)

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-m1000

Identifier 4956 (accession number), CHS-4956 (call number), CHS-4956 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1891 (legacy record id), chs-m1000 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1020 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12094 (legacy record id), 1-107-24 (microfiche number), 1-50-24 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1891

Unique identifier UC117473

Legacy Identifier CHS-4956.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.9 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 35.4 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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