California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Birdseye view of the main channel of the Port if Los Angeles, looking north over the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro, ca.1970

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Birdseye view of the main channel of the Port if Los Angeles, looking north over the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro, ca.1970

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Photograph of a birdseye view of the main channel of the Port if Los Angeles, looking north over the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro, ca.1970. The Vincent Thomas Bridge bisects the image horizontally at a slight diagonal, running from just below center left to just above center right. The harbor fills the fore- and middlegrounds, with a concrete dock building in the foreground that reads, from left to right, "American Mail Line", "American President Lines", and "Pacific Far East Line". A ship and two tugboats sail under the left center of the bridge. Several other ships and barges are docked throughout the harbor. Wilmington can be seen in the distance to the right, while the San Gabriel Mountains sit in the center background, to the north of downtown Los Angeles.

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Title Birdseye view of the main channel of the Port if Los Angeles, looking north over the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro, ca.1970

Subject Bridges (adlf), Freight and freightage (lcsh), Harbors (lcsh), Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- Los Angeles Harbor -- General views -- 1940's to 1970's (file heading), Lumber (lcsh), Railroads (lcsh), Shipping (lcsh), ships (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), San Pedro (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1970

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), 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 1970

Contributor Foster & Kleiser (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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m992

Identifier 31008 (accession number), CHS-31008 (call number), CHS-31008 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8900 (legacy record id), chs-m992 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-1009 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1009 (legacy record id), 1-49- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8900

Unique identifier UC138974

Legacy Identifier CHS-31008.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.8 in × 16.1 in at 300dpi
50.5 cm × 40.9 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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