California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of the Plaza looking east from Fort Moore Hill, Los Angeles, ca.1875

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View of the Plaza looking east from Fort Moore Hill, Los Angeles, ca.1875

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Photograph of a view of the Plaza looking east from Fort Moore Hill, Los Angeles, ca.1875. At center, a basin or bandstand of some sort is pictured, at the center of what appears to be a track of sorts. Plaza Catholic Church and Olvera Adobe can be seen at left, while Plaza and Lugo House can be seen at right. Cultivated land and hazy mountains can be seen in the distance.

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Title View of the Plaza looking east from Fort Moore Hill, Los Angeles, ca.1875

Subject Churches (lcsh), Landscape architecture (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Plaza #1 -- General views -- 1860 to 1879 (file heading), residential sites (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1875

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 19 x 26 cm., 13 x 18 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)

Date Created 1875

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-m2436

Identifier 339 (accession number), CHS-339 (call number), CHS-339 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3357 (legacy record id), chs-m2436 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-2497 (legacy record id), 1-14-3 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3357

Unique identifier UC120549

Legacy Identifier CHS-339.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 21.9 in × 16.7 in at 300dpi
55.6 cm × 42.5 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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