Exterior view of the Call Building in San Francisco, ca.1900

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Call Building in San Francisco, ca.1900. At center a fifteen story building can be seen with a dome top and rectangular windows visible on each story. Multiple pedestrians, three street-cars, and a carriage are visible on the road in front of the building in the foreground. A four-story building is visible in the right foreground with signs on it reading, "Monaco Photographer", "Dr. Sande(?) Electric Belts", and "Chiropodist". Two small domes are visible on top of the building, while a portion of another building is visible in the left foreground. A building with a tall steeple can be seen in the left background.

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Title Exterior view of the Call Building in San Francisco, ca.1900

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1900

Subject Architecture, Baroque (lcsh), buildings (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Call Building (subject), San Francisco County -- Architecture (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), 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)

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-m9023

Identifier 43266 (accession number), CHS-43266 (call number), CHS-43266 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8929 (legacy record id), chs-m9023 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-9161 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8929

Unique identifier UC138897

Legacy Identifier CHS-43266.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.8 in × 20.8 in at 300dpi
42.9 cm × 52.9 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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