California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Santa Monica's Palisades Park and Castle Rock, ca.1910

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Santa Monica's Palisades Park and Castle Rock, ca.1910

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Photograph of Santa Monica's Palisades Park and Castle Rock, ca.1910. The conical rock is at center, jutting out from the shoreline above a sandy beach. Behind the rock at left, the Coast Highway can be seen winding its way along the shore. A wooden fence acts a guardrail near the rock. The right side of the road is bordered by steep mountains covered in a variety of brush.

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Title Santa Monica's Palisades Park and Castle Rock, ca.1910

Subject Beaches (adlf), Fences (lcsh), Ocean (lcsh), Parks (lcsh), Santa Monica -- General (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Santa Monica (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1910

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), 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 1910

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-m6592

Identifier 11499 (accession number), CHS-11499 (call number), CHS-11499 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6665 (legacy record id), chs-m6592 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-6707 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6665

Unique identifier UC116961

Legacy Identifier CHS-11499.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.8 in × 10.1 in at 300dpi
35.2 cm × 25.7 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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