California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the Cota Adobe showing signs of disrepair in Old Town, San Diego, ca.1925

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Exterior view of the Cota Adobe showing signs of disrepair in Old Town, San Diego, ca.1925

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Cota Adobe showing signs of disrepair in Old Town, San Diego, ca.1925. The one-story rancher is shown at center, much of the spackle having eroded away from the now-evident adobe brick beneath. The door, and the two windows that flank it, appear to be boarded shut, and shingles on the roof are either missing, or appear to be loose. A slightly raised dirt path runs just in front of the house, while a wider dirt road is visible in foreground below.; Picture file card reads "Built by the Cotas, a descendent was Francisco (Chico) Cotas, last color bearer in the Mexican California Army in 1874, surrendered to Fremont at Cahuenga".

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Title Exterior view of the Cota Adobe showing signs of disrepair in Old Town, San Diego, ca.1925

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1925

Subject Adobe houses (lcsh), Cota (subject), residential sites (adlf), San Diego County -- Architecture -- Adobes (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Old Town (city or populated place), San Diego (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1925

Type images

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

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-m8909

Identifier 12334 (accession number), CHS-12334 (call number), CHS-12334 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9268 (legacy record id), chs-m8909 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-9046 (legacy record id), 1-46- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9268

Unique identifier UC138825

Legacy Identifier CHS-12334.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.1 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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