Painting of the Cliff House and Seal Rocks in San Francisco, ca.1878

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Title Painting of the Cliff House and Seal Rocks in San Francisco, ca.1878

Description Photograph of a painting of the Cliff House and Seal Rocks in San Francisco, ca.1878. Multiple carriages, riders, and people are visible on the beach. A building reading, "Cliff House" is depicted in the right background on the edge of a cliff. A few ships are visible on the ocean in the background, while rocks can be seen jutting out of the ocean. Mountains are visible in the distance.

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

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1878

Subject Beaches (adlf), Cliff House (subject), Restaurants, lunch rooms, etc. (lcsh), Rocks (lcsh), San Francisco County -- Architecture -- Cliff houses and seal rocks (file heading), Seals (Animals) (lcsh)

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

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

Temporal Subject 1878

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 18 x 25 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)

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-m9028

Identifier 8684 (accession number), CHS-8684 (call number), CHS-8684 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8933 (legacy record id), chs-m9028 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-9166 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8933

Unique identifier UC139344

Legacy Identifier CHS-8684.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.3 in × 14.8 in at 300dpi
51.5 cm × 37.8 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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