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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of the Playa Del Rey lagoon and the fifty room Del Rey Hotel, ca.1885
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View of the Playa Del Rey lagoon and the fifty room Del Rey Hotel, ca.1885
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Description
Photograph of a Playa Del Rey lagoon and the fifty room Del Rey Hotel, ca.1885. The hotel is on the left side of the image, across the lagoon from the camera. The lagoon is in the foreground and stretches from the bottom left corner towards Venice in the upper right. There is a wharf on the right side of the lagoon. In the background is Santa Monica Bay, and beyond this body of water is a mountain range.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of the Playa Del Rey lagoon and the fifty room Del Rey Hotel, ca.1885
Subject
Del Rey Hotel
(subject),
Hotels, taverns, etc.
(lcsh),
Lagoons
(lcsh),
Lakes
(adlf),
Los Angeles County -- Playa Del Rey
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Playa del Rey
(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.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1968
Identifier
10531 (
accession number
), CHS-10531 (
call number
), CHS-10531 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-2815 (
legacy record id
), chs-m1968 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-2024 (
legacy record id
), 1-56- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
2815
Unique identifier
UC116863
Legacy Identifier
CHS-10531.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.9 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 35.3 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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