California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Drawing depicting "the San Pedro Deep-water Harbor as it will look when completed", ca.1900

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Drawing depicting "the San Pedro Deep-water Harbor as it will look when completed", ca.1900

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Photograph of a drawing depicting "the San Pedro Deep-water Harbor as it will look when completed", ca.1900. The drawing is an aerial view of the harbor and the surrounding area. A large bay can be seen at center, and several docks are visible near the mouth of the bay at left. Along breakwater can be seen in the ocean in the foreground. Several steamships are making their way into the harbor. In the distance behind the harbor is a large, flat plain bordered in the background by mountains. Points idenified on the drawing by numbers are Point Fermin, San Pedro, Terminal Island, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Wilmington, and Terminal Railway.

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Title Drawing depicting "the San Pedro Deep-water Harbor as it will look when completed", ca.1900

Subject Harbors (lcsh), Harbors (adlf), Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- General views -- Illustrations (file heading), Shipping (lcsh), ships (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), San Pedro (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (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 1900

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-m994

Identifier 32718 (accession number), CHS-32718 (call number), CHS-32718 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8902 (legacy record id), chs-m994 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1012 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-984 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8902

Unique identifier UC138946

Legacy Identifier CHS-32718.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.6 in × 16.5 in at 300dpi
52.3 cm × 42.1 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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