California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Panama-Pacific International Exposition night float, showing structures made of lights, San Francisco, 1915

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Panama-Pacific International Exposition night float, showing structures made of lights, San Francisco, 1915

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Photograph of a Panama-Pacific International Exposition night float, showing structures made of lights, San Francisco, 1915. The wheels seem to be lit across the bottom of the float while spots decorate the dark figure above them. Three crown-like figures formed from lights appear to float above the other lights.

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Title Panama-Pacific International Exposition night float, showing structures made of lights, San Francisco, 1915

Subject buildings (adlf), Exhibitions (lcsh), Night (lcsh), Parade floats (lcsh), Parades (lcsh), San Francisco -- Palace of Fine Arts -- Exhibitions (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Francisco (city or populated place), San Francisco (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1915

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 10 x 13 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 1915

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-m9285

Identifier 43304 (accession number), CHS-43304 (call number), CHS-43304 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9547 (legacy record id), chs-m9285 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-9421 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9547

Unique identifier UC139340

Legacy Identifier CHS-43304.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.5 in × 15.4 in at 300dpi
49.7 cm × 39.3 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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