View of the Hotel Del Coronado's original boathouse, ferry landing and railroad station, ca.1888

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Photograph of the Hotel Del Coronado's original boathouse, ferry landing and railroad station, ca.1888. There is a single large white building, topped by towers and lined with arched windows, at the center of the image. There is a steam locomotive in the foreground on the right, pulling two passenger cars. The locomotive is labeled "Coronado Railroad 6" There is a large steamship on the left side of the image, topped by a pilothouse and smoke stack. There is another ship visible to the right of the boathouse. On the road to the left of the building are three horse-drawn carriages. In the bottom left corner is a dirt path shaded by a row of trees.

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Title View of the Hotel Del Coronado's original boathouse, ferry landing and railroad station, ca.1888

Subject Boats and boating (lcsh), Hotel del Coronado (Coronado, Calif.) (naf corporate name), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), marinas (adlf), Railroads -- Stations (lcsh), San Diego County -- Coronado -- Hotels Del Coronado (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1888

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 1888

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8688

Identifier 10126 (accession number), CHS-10126 (call number), CHS-10126 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9061 (legacy record id), chs-m8688 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8820 (legacy record id), 1-46- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9061

Unique identifier UC138683

Legacy Identifier CHS-10126.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.3 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
51.7 cm × 41.2 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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