California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the Huntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino, ca.1930

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Exterior view of the Huntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino, ca.1930

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Photograph of the exterior of the Huntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino, ca.1930. In the foreground on the right is a large tree shading a life-size statue of Poseidon. There is a garden with a fountain on the left side, surrounded by a low fence and bushes. The white Romanesque library building is in the background on the left side. It has a series of marble columns alternating with tall thin windows running along the front. There is a tent behind the tree on the right side.

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Title Exterior view of the Huntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino, ca.1930

Subject Art museums (lcsh), Huntington Library (subject), Huntington, Henry E. (subject), Libraries (lcsh), library buildings (adlf), Los Angeles County -- San Marino -- Huntington Library (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (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 1930

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-m6548

Identifier 10062 (accession number), CHS-10062 (call number), CHS-10062 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6629 (legacy record id), chs-m6548 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6663 (legacy record id), 1-37- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6629

Unique identifier UC116883

Legacy Identifier CHS-10062.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.6 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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