California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Morro Rock at the entrance to the harbor in San Luis Obispo County, 1895-1905

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View of Morro Rock at the entrance to the harbor in San Luis Obispo County, 1895-1905

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Photograph of Morro Rock at the entrance to the harbor in San Luis Obispo County, 1895-1905. A large mound of rock and soil stands surrounded by water at the center of the photograph. In the foreground, a beach shore can be seen, on which the silhouette of a single person is visible on one of the dunes to the right.

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Title View of Morro Rock at the entrance to the harbor in San Luis Obispo County, 1895-1905

Subject natural rock formations (adlf), Rocks (lcsh), San Luis Obispo County -- Morro Rock (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), natural rock formations: Morro Rock (geographic subject), San Luis Obispo (city or populated place), San Luis Obispo (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1895/1905

Type images

Format 1 microfilm frame : negative, b&w ; 35 mm. (aacr2), microfilms (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 1895/1905

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-m17908

Identifier 6989 (accession number), CHS-6989 (call number), CHS-6989 (filename), J (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17890 (legacy record id), chs-m17908 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14322 (legacy record id), 1-208- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17890

Unique identifier UC113461

Legacy Identifier CHS-6989.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.0 in × 7.2 in at 300dpi
48.3 cm × 18.4 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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