Etching of an exterior view of Timms & Co., San Pedro, 1870

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Photograph of an etching of "Timms & Co., commission & forwarding business, San Pedro, 27 miles from Los Angeles" (caption), 1870. Image shows wagon drawn by 8-horse team, a cart, a wagon, a rope hoist on a landing bearing goods, and, in the bay, a rowboat, a sailing ship, and a steamer. Deadman's Island is in the background. Augustus Timms acquired the site used for "Timms Landing" aka "Timms Point" around 1850, located in what would later be Fishermen's Slip close by Ports O' Call, San Pedro (berths 74 to 77 in 1945). He built houses and new landing (it is said that the site had been occupied by Sepulveda's Landing) and developed a very successful shipping center. In 1881 Mrs. Wheeler opened a school in this warehouse with 15 pupils from 14 families.

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Title Etching of an exterior view of Timms & Co., San Pedro, 1870

Subject buildings (lcsh), Carriages and carts (lcsh), commercial sites (adlf), Docks (lcsh), Harbors (lcsh), Islands (lcsh), Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- General views -- Illustrations (file heading), 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 1870

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 17 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1870

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-m993

Identifier 2853 (accession number), CHS-2853 (call number), CHS-2853 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8901 (legacy record id), chs-m993 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1010 (legacy record id), 1-50-19 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8901

Unique identifier UC139039

Legacy Identifier CHS-2853.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.5 in × 14.1 in at 300dpi
47.0 cm × 35.8 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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