California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, showing residences, ca.1900

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Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, showing residences, ca.1900

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Photograph of residences on Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, ca.1900. A dirt road extends from the center foreground to the left distance where faint hills stand. Small plants sit on the left side of the road with a row of trees behind them. Tall, thin trees line the sidewalk on the right while short palm trees decorate the yards of the houses on the far right. The two-story houses have stairs leading to their large porches.

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Title Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, showing residences, ca.1900

Subject Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Santa Monica -- Streets -- Ocean Avenue (file heading), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Trees (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Ocean Avenue (roadway), Santa Monica (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1900

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-m2369

Identifier 286 (accession number), CHS-286 (call number), CHS-286 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3294 (legacy record id), chs-m2369 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2430 (legacy record id), 1-54- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3294

Unique identifier UC120433

Legacy Identifier CHS-286.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.5 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
44.4 cm × 34.5 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

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