California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Lumber dock at the San Pedro Harbor Entrance between Dead Man's Island, West Jetty and Terminal Island ca.1895

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Lumber dock at the San Pedro Harbor Entrance between Dead Man's Island, West Jetty and Terminal Island ca.1895

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Photograph of a lumber dock at the San Pedro Harbor Entrance between Dead Man's Island, West Jetty and Terminal Island ca.1895. Just past the building in the extreme foreground which is obscured by trees is a large quantity of stacked processed lumber (planks and beams). Just beyond this in the harbor is a long ship with four flag-topped masts beyond which several much smaller boats and the mouth of the breakwater between Terminal Island and the harbor can be seen. Dead Man's island has not yet been removed. It is visible on the left side of the mouth. A dredge is active in the channel. Tripling its population between 1900 and 1910 causing the real estate and construction industries to boom, Los Angeles began importing large quantities of lumber from the Pacific Northwest.

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Title Lumber dock at the San Pedro Harbor Entrance between Dead Man's Island, West Jetty and Terminal Island ca.1895

Subject Dredging (lcsh), Freight and freightage (lcsh), Harbors (lcsh), Harbors (adlf), Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- Los Angeles Harbor -- General (file heading), Lumber (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 1895

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 1895

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m978

Identifier 6235 (accession number), CHS-6235 (call number), CHS-6235 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8886 (legacy record id), chs-m978 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-981 (legacy record id), 1-50-45 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8886

Unique identifier UC139169

Legacy Identifier CHS-6235.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.5 in × 12.7 in at 300dpi
44.5 cm × 32.4 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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