California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Start of 25 Mile Bicycle Race at Grandstand in Agricultural Park, October 3, 1893

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Start of 25 Mile Bicycle Race at Grandstand in Agricultural Park, October 3, 1893

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Photograph (streetscape, horizontal photography) shows a mass start of the 25 mile bicycle race, October 3, 1893. Location is racetrack at Agricultural (Exposition) Park. Taken from the grandstand. Horse-drawn carriages are parked on the inside of the tracks.

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Title Start of 25 Mile Bicycle Race at Grandstand in Agricultural Park, October 3, 1893

Subject Bicyclers (lcsh), Bicycles (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Parks -- Exposition Park (formerly Agricultural Park) (file heading), Recreation -- Bicycling (file heading), sports facilities (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Exposition Boulevard (roadway), Exposition Park (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Rose Garden (manmade features), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1893-10-03

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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)

Date Created 1893-10-03

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-m8513

Identifier 8611 (accession number), CHS-8611 (call number), CHS-8611 (filename), isla id: S-4611 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9001 (legacy record id), chs-m8513 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8649 (legacy record id), 1-101-13 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9001

Unique identifier UC138750

Legacy Identifier CHS-8611.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 14.3 in at 300dpi
47.7 cm × 36.3 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

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

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