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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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The Ancon, a paddlewheel (or side wheel) steamer and sister to the Orizaba, at the 5th Street Wharf, San Diego bay, ca.1885
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The Ancon, a paddlewheel (or side wheel) steamer and sister to the Orizaba, at the 5th Street Wharf, San Diego bay, ca.1885
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Photograph of the Ancon, a paddlewheel (or side wheel) steamer and sister to the Orizaba, at the 5th Street Wharf, San Diego bay, ca.1885. Parked nearby the steamer are other similar-sized ships with their sails down. The water is calm. Picture file card reads: "Sister ships -- Ancon (8283) & Orizoba (11953) P.C.S.S. Co. Built in New York in 1855. 894 tons, 240 feet long, beam 34 feet, depth 15 feet. 500 horse powered engine. Came through straits of Magellan in 1856. Name of line changed to Pacific Mail Navigation Co. in 1881. Orizoba broken up in 1887. Ancon lasted 2 years longer. In 1887, all Pacific Mail ships changed to screw propeller and iron hull".
Asset Metadata
Title
The Ancon, a paddlewheel (or side wheel) steamer and sister to the Orizaba, at the 5th Street Wharf, San Diego bay, ca.1885
Subject
bays
(adlf),
Orizaba
(subject),
S. S. Ancon
(subject),
San Diego County -- General
(file heading),
ships
(lcsh),
Steamboats
(lcsh),
Transportation -- Water -- Side wheel
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
San Diego
(city or populated place),
San Diego
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1885
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(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
1885
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.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8894
Identifier
8283 (
accession number
), CHS-8283 (
call number
), CHS-8283 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-9254 (
legacy record id
), chs-m8894 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12863 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-9031 (
legacy record id
), 1-121-28 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
9254
Unique identifier
UC138784
Legacy Identifier
CHS-8283.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.4 in × 12.8 in at 300dpi
46.9 cm × 32.6 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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