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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Exterior view of the San Bernardino Post Office building and Business College, ca.1905
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Exterior view of the San Bernardino Post Office building and Business College, ca.1905
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Description
Photograph of an exterior view of the San Bernardino Post Office building and Business College, ca.1905. The two-story brick building of the Business College is visible at center on the corner of two streets. On the first floor, shop-style windows are situated, a few to the right covered by striped canopy, one of which is a sign that reads "Post Office". Bicycles are parked alongside the sidewalk in front. On the second story, each window is framed by a brick arch, and a sign on one of the windows reads "Shorthand Department". Rail car tracks run through the center of the unpaved street in the foreground.; Other legible signs include: "The [...] Electric Company. Light. Power", "Clar[...] Lodging", and "Save the Bands".
Asset Metadata
Title
Exterior view of the San Bernardino Post Office building and Business College, ca.1905
Subject
buildings
(adlf),
buildings
(lcsh),
Postal service -- Buildings
(lcsh),
San Bernardino Business College
(subject),
San Bernardino County -- San Bernardino -- Architecture -- General
(file heading),
San Bernardino Postal Office
(subject),
Schools
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
San Bernardino
(city or populated place),
San Bernardino
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1900
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)
Date Created
1900
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8630
Identifier
8238 (
accession number
), CHS-8238 (
call number
), CHS-8238 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-9038 (
legacy record id
), chs-m8630 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-8763 (
legacy record id
), 1-45- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
9038
Unique identifier
UC138816
Legacy Identifier
CHS-8238.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.3 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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