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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Interior of the San Diego Cable Car power house, ca.1900-1905
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Interior of the San Diego Cable Car power house, ca.1900-1905
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Description
Photograph of the interior of the San Diego Cable Car power house, ca.1900-1905. A motor (right) supplies electricity to turn the large wheels (left) around which the cables wrap. The cables extend out the end of the building (at back). The motor is labelled "San Diego Cable Rail".... This power house was for the San Diego Cable Road.
Asset Metadata
Title
Interior of the San Diego Cable Car power house, ca.1900-1905
Subject
buildings
(lcsh),
power generation sites
(adlf),
Power supply
(lcsh),
Railroads, Cable
(lcsh),
San Diego Cable Car Company
(subject),
San Diego County -- San Diego -- General
(file heading),
Street-railroads
(lcsh),
Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- General (Buildings)
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
San Diego
(city or populated place),
San Diego
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1900/1905
Type
images
Format
4 photographs : transparency, photoprints, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 17 x 22 cm.
(aacr2),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat),
transparencies
(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
1900/1905
Contributor
Lewis
(provenance)
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-m8774
Identifier
4981 (
accession number
), CHS-4981 (
call number
), CHS-4981 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-9145 (
legacy record id
), chs-m8774 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12782 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-8907 (
legacy record id
), 1-120-14 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
9145
Unique identifier
UC138853
Legacy Identifier
CHS-4981.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 12.9 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 32.8 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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