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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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The painting "Atlanta's Race" by Poynter, [s.d.]
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The painting "Atlanta's Race" by Poynter, [s.d.]
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Photograph of the painting "Atlanta's Race" by Poynter, [s.d.]. The painting depicts the mythical race between Atlanta and Melanion. In the right foreground, Atlanta stoops to pick up a golden apple thrown at her feet by Melanion, shown farther left, who still retains one apple in his hand and can be seen looking back at his opponent. In the background, various greek spectators line either side of a causeway that ends at a tall pillar in the background.; The myth entails Melanion's plot to win a resistant Atlanta's hand in marriage. Gifted with the three golden apples from Aphrodite, Melanion is said to have challenged Atlanta to a race he could not win under normal terms as a wager for marriage. Each time, as Atlanta gained on him, Melanion dropped an apple which Atlanta consistently stopped to retrieve. This lost her the race and wed her to Melanion.; E.J. Poynter, one of the last Victorian classical painters, was born in Paris in 1836. He continued to paint classical themes until his death in 1919, long after classical paintings had gone out of vogue.
Asset Metadata
Title
The painting "Atlanta's Race" by Poynter, [s.d.]
Subject
Art
(lcsh),
Art -- Greek
(file heading),
cities
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 14 x 25 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
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer), Poynter, Edward J. (artist)
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-m18244
Identifier
8870 (
accession number
), CHS-8870 (
call number
), CHS-8870 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-18232 (
legacy record id
), chs-m18244 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14104 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
), H-1485 (
unidentified no.
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
18232
Unique identifier
UC114214
Legacy Identifier
CHS-8870.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.4 in × 8.2 in at 300dpi
41.6 cm × 21.0 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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