California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior of the first Santa Fe Railroad Depot in Los Angeles, 1887

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Exterior of the first Santa Fe Railroad Depot in Los Angeles, 1887

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Photograph of the exterior of the first Santa Fe Railroad Depot in Los Angeles, 1887. Rails run along the side of the two-story wooden structure. A raised platform runs the entire length of the building. A utility pole and a few other buildings are visible in the background at right.

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Title Exterior of the first Santa Fe Railroad Depot in Los Angeles, 1887

Subject LA -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Train stations (subject), Los Angeles City -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Train stations -- General (file heading), railroad features (adlf), Railroads -- Stations (lcsh), Santa Fe Railroad (subject), Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- Stations (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1887

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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 1887

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-m1531

Identifier 2762 (accession number), CHS-2762 (call number), CHS-2762 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2393 (legacy record id), chs-m1531 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1579 (legacy record id), 1-119-6 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2393

Unique identifier UC116160

Legacy Identifier CHS-2762.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.9 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
43.0 cm × 33.3 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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