Twin Palms of Old Town San Diego, ca.1888

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Title Twin Palms of Old Town San Diego, ca.1888

Description Photograph of the twin palm trees of old town San Diego, ca.1888. The two tall palm trees (right tree twice as tall as the left tree) fenced in a small picket fence area. Part of a small wooden building, at left, and a wood post and rail fence, foreground, are also visible. A copse of trees stands across the dirt road in the background.

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1888

Subject Palms (lcsh), residential sites (adlf), San Diego County -- San Diego -- Old Town (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Diego (city or populated place), San Diego (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1888

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm. (aacr2), 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)

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-m8705

Identifier 3858 (accession number), CHS-3858 (call number), CHS-3858 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9080 (legacy record id), chs-m8705 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8837 (legacy record id), 1-46- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9080

Unique identifier UC138857

Legacy Identifier CHS-3858.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 12.7 in × 17.1 in at 300dpi
32.4 cm × 43.4 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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