The ground-breaking for the Hotel del Coronado, ca.1886

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Photograph of the ground-breaking for the Hotel del Coronado, ca.1886. Crowds of people, many of which are loaded onto the trolley car in the background, attend this ground-breaking ceremony. "Coronado Beach R.R." is painted on the trolley in the background.

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Title The ground-breaking for the Hotel del Coronado, ca.1886

Subject Hotel del Coronado (Coronado, Calif.) (naf corporate name), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), railroad features (adlf), Railroads -- Passenger traffic (lcsh), Rites and ceremonies (lcsh), San Diego County -- Coronado (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1886

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1886

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-m7945

Identifier 8440 (accession number), CHS-8440 (call number), CHS-8440 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8176 (legacy record id), chs-m7945 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8074 (legacy record id), 1-46- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8176

Unique identifier UC125636

Legacy Identifier CHS-8440.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 33.7 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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