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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of San Diego from Florence Heights, ca.1898
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View of San Diego from Florence Heights, ca.1898
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Description
Photograph of a view of San Diego from Florence Heights, ca.1898. The Washington Street School, formerly known as the Middletown School, is visible in the foreground. The bay is in the background, with a long pier visible on the left side of the image. The part of the city visible is mostly made up of houses, with the exception of the school, and there are several trees mixed in among the buildings. There is a flat island in the middle of the bay, and more land across the water.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of San Diego from Florence Heights, ca.1898
Subject
coastal zones
(adlf),
San Diego County -- San Diego -- Old Town
(file heading),
Schools
(lcsh),
Views
(lcsh),
Washington School
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
San Diego
(city or populated place),
San Diego
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1898
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
1898
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-m8727
Identifier
10111 (
accession number
), CHS-10111 (
call number
), CHS-10111 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-9102 (
legacy record id
), chs-m8727 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-8859 (
legacy record id
), 1-46- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
9102
Unique identifier
UC138753
Legacy Identifier
CHS-10111.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.7 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
50.1 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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