California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Rear patio side of the Francis Avila Adobe built in 1821, [s.d.]

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Rear patio side of the Francis Avila Adobe built in 1821, [s.d.]

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Photograph of the rear patio side of the Francis Avila Adobe built in 1821, [s.d.]. The house, owned by the 1825 mayor of Los Angeles, Francis Avila, is a long, one-story complex featuring multiple consecutive doors and windows. In the foreground, a garden plot demarcated by a circle of bricks can be seen from which a vine of what appears to be ivy is growing. A tall y-forked tree that obscures part of the house can also be seen in at left. The house called "the most pretentious in the city" and that was allegedly "used by Commander Stockton as his headquarters" was located on Avila street, which was later renamed Olvera.

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Title Rear patio side of the Francis Avila Adobe built in 1821, [s.d.]

Subject Adobe houses (lcsh), Avila, Francis (subject), Los Angeles -- Plaza #3 -- Architecture -- Domestic (file heading), residential sites (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Olvera Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.; 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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)

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-m3895

Identifier 6361 (accession number), CHS-6361 (call number), CHS-6361 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5389 (legacy record id), chs-m3895 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3984 (legacy record id), 1-14-20 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5389

Unique identifier UC119299

Legacy Identifier CHS-6361.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.4 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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