Exterior view of Juan Crisostomo Vejar Stage Station on Ventura road, ca.1886

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Title Exterior view of Juan Crisostomo Vejar Stage Station on Ventura road, ca.1886

Description Photograph of an exterior view of Juan Crisostomo Vejar Stage Station on Ventura road, ca.1886. The station, built in 1820 by the family of Thomas Delano and Juan Crisostomo Vejar, is a two-story wooden building with a covered porch and balcony at left. There is a yard full of plants and trees and surrounded by a picket fence at left, and at right a split rail fence extends from the building. A tall brick chimney rises up from the side of the building at center. The Vejar Station was located at the present city of Agoura.

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1886

Subject Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), Coaching (lcsh), Horses (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Malibu -- General views (file heading), Terminals (Transportation) (lcsh), Transportation -- Draft -- Stage coaches -- Stations (file heading), transportation features (adlf)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Agoura (city or populated place), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Ventura Road (roadways)

Temporal Subject 1886

Type images

Format 2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat), transparencies (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)

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-m3776

Identifier 11289 (accession number), CHS-11289 (call number), CHS-11289 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5630 (legacy record id), chs-m3776 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-11987 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-11988 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3860 (legacy record id), 1-33- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5630

Unique identifier UC119348

Legacy Identifier CHS-11289.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.5 in × 11.4 in at 300dpi
39.5 cm × 29.1 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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