California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Painting of Cupid entitled "Amor", [s.d.]

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Painting of Cupid entitled "Amor", [s.d.]

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Photograph of a painting of Cupid entitled "Amor", [s.d.]. The painting, done by an unidentified artist, shows Cupid at center, sharpening his arrow near a lakebed on what appears to be a stone. The scene is circumscibed by both byzantine and arabesque filagree. The title "Amor" is written beneath the image.

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Title Painting of Cupid entitled "Amor", [s.d.]

Subject Art (lcsh), Art -- Love (file heading), Lakes (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w. (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 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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18391

Identifier 8797 (accession number), CHS-8797 (call number), CHS-8797 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18351 (legacy record id), chs-m18391 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14104 (legacy record id), USC (project), H-1255 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18351

Unique identifier UC114109

Legacy Identifier CHS-8797.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.9 in × 20.3 in at 300dpi
40.4 cm × 51.6 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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