California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Map of U.S. Coast Survey, showing the entrance to San Diego Harbor, ca.1859

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Map of U.S. Coast Survey, showing the entrance to San Diego Harbor, ca.1859

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Photograph of a U.S. Coast Survey showing the entrance to San Diego Harbor, ca.1859. A topographical map of Point Loma is at left, while in the upper right corner, a smaller map shows the entire bay and harbor. The map of Point Loma also shows Ballast Point, La Playa, Zuninga Shoal and West Base. The smaller map shows the Pacific Ocean, Point Loma, La Playa, Fitchs Hill, San Diego and New San Diego. Compares to CHS-10001, CHS-10002 and CHS-10003; other maps of California coast from same coast survey.

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Title Map of U.S. Coast Survey, showing the entrance to San Diego Harbor, ca.1859

Subject coasts (lcsh), Harbors (adlf), Harbors (lcsh), San Diego County -- San Diego -- Old Town (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1859

Type images, maps

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), maps (aat), 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 1859

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8724

Identifier 10000 (accession number), CHS-10000 (call number), CHS-10000 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9099 (legacy record id), chs-m8724 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13386 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8856 (legacy record id), 1-56- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9099

Unique identifier UC138782

Legacy Identifier CHS-10000.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.0 in × 17.0 in at 300dpi
35.5 cm × 43.1 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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