View of Old Town San Diego taken from the hill where the U.S. Grant house stood, 1876

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Photograph of a view of Old Town San Diego taken from the hill where the U.S. Grant house stood, 1876. A Street is in the foreground, bordered by a white picket fence. In the distance on the left edge of the image is the Horton House Hotel, while opposite it on the right side is the courthouse. Between the two is the U.S. Barracks. The land from A Street to the rest of the city is empty except for a small rectangular building on the left edge and a fenced in area on the right. A brewery is visible on B Street.

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Title View of Old Town San Diego taken from the hill where the U.S. Grant house stood, 1876

Subject cities (adlf), County Court House (subject), Courthouses (lcsh), Horton House (subject), San Diego County -- San Diego -- Old Town (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place "B" Street (roadway), 6th Street and "A" Street (roadway), California (states), San Diego (city or populated place), San Diego (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1876

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 1876

Contributor Reid, F.W. (donor)

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-m8694

Identifier 10152 (accession number), CHS-10152 (call number), CHS-10152 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9065 (legacy record id), chs-m8694 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8826 (legacy record id), 1-46- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9065

Unique identifier UC138809

Legacy Identifier CHS-10152.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.6 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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