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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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The painting "The sea hath its pearls" by William Henry Margetson, 1897, depicting a woman collecting shells on the beach, [s.d.]
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The painting "The sea hath its pearls" by William Henry Margetson, 1897, depicting a woman collecting shells on the beach, [s.d.]
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The painting "The sea hath its pearls" by William Henry Margetson, 1897, depicting a woman collecting shells on the beach, [s.d.]. The woman is shown in a circular frame, wearing a toga with a floral pattern at the hem. She is bent slightly at the waist, clutching her toga to her chest and examining the shell in her hand. The sea water laps at her sandaled feet and fills the rest of the background.
Asset Metadata
Title
The painting "The sea hath its pearls" by William Henry Margetson, 1897, depicting a woman collecting shells on the beach, [s.d.]
Subject
Art
(lcsh),
Art -- Women
(file heading),
Beaches
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
art
(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)
Creator
Margetson, William Henry
(artist),
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.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18327
Identifier
8909 (
accession number
), CHS-8909 (
call number
), CHS-8909 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-18295 (
legacy record id
), chs-m18327 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14104 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
), H-1257 (
unidentified no.
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
18295
Unique identifier
UC113970
Legacy Identifier
CHS-8909.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.6 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
52.3 cm × 40.7 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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