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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Mexican Custom House at Yerba Buena, San Francisco, July 1846
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Mexican Custom House at Yerba Buena, San Francisco, July 1846
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Description
Photograph of a half-tone print of a drawing of an adobe structure known as the Mexican Custom House at Yerba Buena, San Francisco, later known as the Old Adobe, July 1846. Two oxen and a hay cart sit stand in the left foreground. The house was captured from the Mexicans by Captain John B. Montgomery of the Sloop Portsmouth three weeks before Sam Brennan landed with 300 armed Mormons. From the Century Publishing Company, A.B. Scherer in Sunset Magazine, September 1925.
Asset Metadata
Title
Mexican Custom House at Yerba Buena, San Francisco, July 1846
Subject
Building, Adobe
(lcsh),
buildings
(adlf),
San Francisco County -- General views
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
San Francisco
(city or populated place),
San Francisco
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1846-07
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 25 x 20 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
1846-07
Creator
Puck, Charles
(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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7997
Identifier
830 (
accession number
), CHS-830 (
call number
), CHS-830 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-8227 (
legacy record id
), chs-m7997 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-8129 (
legacy record id
), 1-48- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
8227
Unique identifier
UC125661
Legacy Identifier
CHS-830.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.7 in × 14.2 in at 300dpi
47.7 cm × 36.1 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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