California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Drawing of the San Francisco waterfront, 1849

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Drawing of the San Francisco waterfront, 1849

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Photograph of a drawing of the San Francisco waterfront, 1849. Clusters of buildings and houses occupy the land near the bay (foreground and at left). Ships of different sizes, many of which are sailing ships, travel through the bay.

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Title Drawing of the San Francisco waterfront, 1849

Subject bays (adlf), Boats and boating (lcsh), buildings (lcsh), Ocean (lcsh), San Francisco County -- Golden Gate and Bay (file heading), ships (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1849

Type images

Format 1 Photoprint : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. (aacr2), art (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 1849

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9084

Identifier 6165 (accession number), CHS-6165 (call number), CHS-6165 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9357 (legacy record id), chs-m9084 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-9222 (legacy record id), 1-48- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9357

Unique identifier UC139210

Legacy Identifier CHS-6165.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.9 in × 9.6 in at 300dpi
48.0 cm × 24.4 cm at 300dpi

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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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