California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of "El Alisal," the home of Charles F. Lummis, ca.1898-1910

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Exterior view of "El Alisal," the home of Charles F. Lummis, ca.1898-1910

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Photograph of the two-story stone house of Charles F. Lummis, "El Alisal", ca.1898-1910. A man and a woman stand facing each other near a door at right. The wooden main door at left bears a decorative initial "CFL". A few trees can be seen towering behind the house. The house was build by Lummis with the help of a 12-year-old Indian boy in the Highland Park area of Los Angeles. Lummis was born at Lynn, Massachusettes in 1859 and died in 1928. He founded the Southwest Museum (Los Angeles) and had an enduring interest in the American southwest and Indians in particular. He was city librarian, 1905-1910. He founded the magazine "Land of Sunshine" later called "Out West".

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Title Exterior view of "El Alisal," the home of Charles F. Lummis, ca.1898-1910

Subject Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), Dwellings (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Highland Park -- Architecture -- Lummis Home (file heading), Lummis, Charles F. (subject), residential sites (adlf), Rocks (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1898/1910

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photoprint, glass photonegative, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm., 17 x 22 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)

Date Created 1898/1910

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

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-m2954

Identifier 1420 (accession number), CHS-1420 (call number), CHS-1420 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3849 (legacy record id), chs-m2954 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3027 (legacy record id), 1-30- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3849

Unique identifier UC116147

Legacy Identifier CHS-1420.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.9 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.0 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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