California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Southern Pacific Hotel at the Southern Pacific Railroad Station in Yuma, Arizona, ca.1935

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Southern Pacific Hotel at the Southern Pacific Railroad Station in Yuma, Arizona, ca.1935

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Photograph of the Southern Pacific Hotel at the Southern Pacific Railroad Station in Yuma, Arizona, ca.1935. In the foreground, beneath the title sign for the hotel, the proclamation reads, "Free Meals Every Day the Sun Doesn't Shine". The hotel itself is two-story, with a balcony from the second, most of which is obscured by three moderately tall trees. Picture file card reads: "The free meals of this offer have been advertised for 51 years, this being the third station in that time(?)".

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Title Southern Pacific Hotel at the Southern Pacific Railroad Station in Yuma, Arizona, ca.1935

Subject Advertising, Outdoor (lcsh), Arizona -- Yuma (file heading), Billboards (lcsh), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), railroad features (adlf), Railroads -- Stations (lcsh), Southern Pacific Hotel (corporate name), Southern Pacific Railroad (corporate name), Sunshine (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Arizona (states), USA (countries), Yuma (city or populated place), Yuma (counties)

Temporal Subject 1935

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegatives, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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)

Date Created 1935

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-m3811

Identifier 6278 (accession number), CHS-6278 (call number), CHS-6278 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5349 (legacy record id), chs-m3811 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3897 (legacy record id), 1-119-23 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5349

Unique identifier UC119298

Legacy Identifier CHS-6278.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.8 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
42.7 cm × 34.7 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

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