California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of the Castle Rock formation with the Mile-Long Pier visible in the background, 1899-1911

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View of the Castle Rock formation with the Mile-Long Pier visible in the background, 1899-1911

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Photograph of a view of the Castle Rock formation with the Mile-Long Pier visible in the background, 1899-1911. A collection of jagged rocks is at center. They are sitting on the sandy beach and small waves are crashing against them at right. Tall mountains can be seen in the distance at left, while the pier is visible in the background at right. The pier was built by Collis Huntington in 1892.

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Title View of the Castle Rock formation with the Mile-Long Pier visible in the background, 1899-1911

Subject Beaches (adlf), Beaches (lcsh), Los Angeles City -- Pacific Palisades -- Castle Rock (file heading), piers (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Pacific Coast Highway (roadway), Pacific Palisades (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1899/1911

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 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 1899/1911

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-m1980

Identifier 33329 (accession number), CHS-33329 (call number), CHS-33329 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2827 (legacy record id), chs-m1980 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2036 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2827

Unique identifier UC116973

Legacy Identifier CHS-33329.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.3 in × 9.4 in at 300dpi
33.9 cm × 23.9 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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