View of the beach in front of San Francisco's Cliff House, ca.1900

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Photograph of a view of the beach in front of San Francisco's Cliff House, ca.1900. The beach is in the foreground and is covered with dark sand. Many beachgoers are visible lounging on the sand or walking near the water. The massive Cliff House restaurant is on a rocky cliff in the background at center. It is six stories high and has a massive rectangular tower at center, in addition to dozens of windows around its perimeter. The large Seal Rocks are visible in the ocean at left. A path leads up the cliff from the beach at right.

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Title View of the beach in front of San Francisco's Cliff House, ca.1900

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

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1900

Subject Beaches (lcsh), Beaches (adlf), Cliff House (subject), Ocean (lcsh), Restaurants, lunch rooms, etc. (lcsh), Rocks (lcsh), San Francisco County -- Architecture -- Cliff houses and seal rocks (file heading), Seals (Animals) (lcsh)

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 ; 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)

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-m9034

Identifier 14370 (accession number), CHS-14370 (call number), CHS-14370 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8939 (legacy record id), chs-m9034 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-9172 (legacy record id), 1-48- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8939

Unique identifier UC138985

Legacy Identifier CHS-14370.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.0 in × 15.8 in at 300dpi
50.8 cm × 40.3 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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