Exterior view of San Francisco's Call Building at night, ca.1900

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Photograph of an exterior view of San Francisco's Call Building at night, ca.1900. The tall skyscraper is at center and is lit up by a series of small lights on its edges. The building is rectangular in shape and has an elaborate domed roof. There are several smaller buildings visible around it, and the street in front is bathed in light. A stained glass window and a picture of a knight in the foreground at right identify a restaurant. A horse-drawn carriage is visible at left.; Legible signs include, from left to right: "J. J. Gildea & Co. Exclusive Fine Clothing", "Old Louvre", "Welcome Knights", and "Pabst Hofbra[u] Milwaukee Family Entrance Restaurant Family".

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Title Exterior view of San Francisco's Call Building at night, ca.1900

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1900

Subject Architecture, Baroque (lcsh), buildings (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Call Building (subject), Night (lcsh), San Francisco County -- Architecture (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 18 x 13 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)

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-m9024

Identifier 14369 (accession number), CHS-14369 (call number), CHS-14369 (filename), isla id: 1-48- (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8714 (legacy record id), chs-m9024 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-9162 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8714

Unique identifier UC139003

Legacy Identifier CHS-14369.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.5 in × 21.9 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 55.6 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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