California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View down California Street, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906

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View down California Street, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906

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Photograph of a view down California Street, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906. People in suits, hats and dress walk down the center of the street which runs from the left foreground to the center distance. Bricks from the fallen building on the right spill over the sidewalk around the electrical poles which line the street. The destruction continues along the right side where a cloud of smoke and dust sits over the area. A large building with a dark tower still stands on the left while two even larger buildings appear to be in tact further down the street in the background. The smoke appears to be thick and lower to the ground in the background.

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Title View down California Street, showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, 1906

Subject buildings (lcsh), Earthquakes (lcsh), Fires (lcsh), roadways (adlf), Streets (lcsh), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1906

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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 1906

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-m24538

Identifier 39955 (accession number), CHS-39955 (call number), CHS-39955 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-23808 (legacy record id), chs-m24538 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 23808

Unique identifier UC126047

Legacy Identifier CHS-39955.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 42.5 in × 30.9 in at 300dpi
107.9 cm × 78.5 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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