California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the home of General Harrison Gray Otis on Wilshire Boulevard, ca.1890-1898

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Exterior view of the home of General Harrison Gray Otis on Wilshire Boulevard, ca.1890-1898

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Photograph of an exterior view of the home of General Harrison Gray Otis on Wilshire Boulevard, ca.1890-1898. The residence (later the Otis Art Institute) is pictured at center, a two-story Spanish Revival-style home with terracotta tiled roof. In the foreground, the street and sidewalk are pictured, showing a small palm tree at right and a sapling at center. Plant foliage surrounds the house both at left and right.

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Title Exterior view of the home of General Harrison Gray Otis on Wilshire Boulevard, ca.1890-1898

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1890/1898

Subject Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), Los Angeles City -- Architecture -- Domestic -- Wilshire Boulevard (file heading), Otis, Harrison Gray (subject), Public buildings (file heading), Wilshire Boulevard (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 2401 Wilshire Boulevard and Parkview Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1890/1898

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm., 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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)

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-m1748

Identifier 293 (accession number), CHS-293 (call number), CHS-293 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2605 (legacy record id), chs-m1748 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1800 (legacy record id), 1-12-36 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2605

Unique identifier UC116516

Legacy Identifier CHS-293.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.7 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
44.9 cm × 34.3 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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