California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Interior view of Tom Williams' tailor shop, showing men and women working in room, ca.1880-1889

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Interior view of Tom Williams' tailor shop, showing men and women working in room, ca.1880-1889

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Photograph of interior view of Tom Williams' tailor shop, showing men and women working in room, ca.1880-1889. Seven men and two women are viewed through a brick doorway facing the camera. At left, a man and a woman sit behind a table with sewing machines in front of them. To the right, the other woman sits in a chair with a cloth in her lap. In the background, five men are visibile. All but one wears a tie, but a small apron is fastened around his waist. At center, a man sits in the chair prominently facing the camera. The man wears a long sleeve shirt, tie, vest, slacks, and dress shoes. Sign above the brick opening of the building reads: "Tom Williams the Tailor, Repairing and Pressing".

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Title Interior view of Tom Williams' tailor shop, showing men and women working in room, ca.1880-1889

Subject buildings (adlf), Clothing trade (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Stores -- Tailors (file heading), Retail trade (lcsh), Tailors (lcsh), Tom Williams Tailor Shop (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 520 South Main Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1880/1889

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 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 1880/1889

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-m1426

Identifier 41329 (accession number), CHS-41329 (call number), CHS-41329 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2292 (legacy record id), chs-m1426 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-1472 (legacy record id), USC (project), P82-1-4 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2292

Unique identifier UC115529

Legacy Identifier CHS-41329.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.6 in × 16.7 in at 300dpi
52.3 cm × 42.4 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

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