View of east Compton during the flood of 1914

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Photograph of a view of east Compton during the flood of 1914. A smooth sheet of water makes its way to the right, dropping down over a tiny embankment. In the background, the silhouettes of houses can be seen, along with structures that appear to be either windmills or oil derricks.

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Title View of east Compton during the flood of 1914

Subject cities (adlf), Floods (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Compton (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1914

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), 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 1914

Contributor Gillingham, Robert C. (donor)

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-m2629

Identifier 12731 (accession number), CHS-12731 (call number), CHS-12731 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3541 (legacy record id), chs-m2629 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2692 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3541

Unique identifier UC120559

Legacy Identifier CHS-12731.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 21.0 in × 16.9 in at 300dpi
53.3 cm × 42.9 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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