California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Lithograph depicting the city of Sacramento during the flood of 1850

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Lithograph depicting the city of Sacramento during the flood of 1850

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Photograph of a lithograph depicting the city of Sacramento during the flood of 1850. The city blocks of Sacramento are pictured, the streets between them flooded. Small boats are pictured floating through the streets. Text beneath the image identifies the place and event. Picture file card reads: "Sacramento had 4 disastrous floods in its early days, Jan. 1850, March 1852, Jan. 1853 and again in 1862. Following the later flood, levies were raised [and] parts of the business district were filled in so that further encroachment was prevented. Floods on the S. river are now a thing of the past. More than one hundred million dollars spent in levies, bypasses, and other flood control works.".

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Title Lithograph depicting the city of Sacramento during the flood of 1850

Subject cities (adlf), Floods (lcsh), Sacramento County -- General views -- Illustrations (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1850

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w. (aacr2), art (aat), 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)

Contributor Miss Annette Glick Collection (provenance)

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-m8317

Identifier 7808 (accession number), CHS-7808 (call number), CHS-7808 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8636 (legacy record id), chs-m8317 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8449 (legacy record id), 1-44- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8636

Unique identifier UC138461

Legacy Identifier CHS-7808.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.4 in × 11.8 in at 300dpi
41.7 cm × 30.1 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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