California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Birdseye view of Santa Monica Beach looking north from Palisades, ca.1905

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Birdseye view of Santa Monica Beach looking north from Palisades, ca.1905

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Photograph of a birdseye view of Santa Monica Beach looking north from Palisades, ca.1905. The broad, sandy expanse of the beach is at left. Bordering the right side of the beach is two-lane paved highway, and running parallel to this is a single railroad. There is a steep cliff at right topped by several small palm trees, and there are large mountains in the distance at center. There is a damaged sign on the beach at left that reads "[...]ades Beach [...] Bundy".

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Title Birdseye view of Santa Monica Beach looking north from Palisades, ca.1905

Subject cliffs (adlf), 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 1905

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegatives, 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 1905

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-m6612

Identifier 11510 (accession number), CHS-11510 (call number), CHS-11510 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6681 (legacy record id), chs-m6612 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6727 (legacy record id), 1-54- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6681

Unique identifier UC116903

Legacy Identifier CHS-11510.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.3 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
44.0 cm × 33.4 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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