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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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An electric motor-driven car of San Diego Electric Rapid Transit, 1885-1888
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An electric motor-driven car of San Diego Electric Rapid Transit, 1885-1888
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Description
Photograph of an electric motor-driven car of San Diego Electric Rapid Transit, 1885-1888. Three men, and a women are riding on the car. One of the men, the driver, sits in a stall compartment on the right side of the car, behind the man who is standing. A large house is visible in the background.
Asset Metadata
Title
An electric motor-driven car of San Diego Electric Rapid Transit, 1885-1888
Subject
Electric railroads
(lcsh),
San Diego County -- San Diego -- Street scenes -- Transportation
(file heading),
San Diego Electric Rapid Transit
(subject),
Street-railroads
(lcsh),
Transportation -- Street Railroads -- General -- Outside L.A. County
(file heading),
transportation features
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
San Diego
(city or populated place),
San Diego
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1885/1888
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
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
1885/1888
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
(photographer)
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8771
Identifier
8438 (
accession number
), CHS-8438 (
call number
), CHS-8438 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-9142 (
legacy record id
), chs-m8771 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12765 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-8904 (
legacy record id
), 1-120-77 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
9142
Unique identifier
UC139166
Legacy Identifier
CHS-8438.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.9 in × 11.8 in at 300dpi
48.2 cm × 30.0 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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