Exterior view of the San Bernardino County Courthouse building, ca.1910

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Photograph of the exterior view of the San Bernardino County Courthouse building, ca.1910. The Victorian style building is about two-stories tall (three-stories for the towers) and constructed of stone ashlar masonry. Two square towers, one of them being a clock tower, have pointed spires and corners. Many of the windows, including the large entrances, are arch-shaped. Several of the windows on the right side of the building have striped cloth awnings. A chimney protrudes over the roof of each gable. Several bicycles are parked along the curb in front of the building. Nearby buildings are visible at right.; Legible signs include: "Occidental furnished rooms", "[...] Brunn, wholesale, wines, liquors & cigars, general insurance", "[...]etna mineral water", "la fiesta de las flores, Los Angeles, May 7 to 12, 1906, Salt Lake route".

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Title Exterior view of the San Bernardino County Courthouse building, ca.1910

Subject buildings (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1910

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1910

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-m8235

Identifier 5244 (accession number), CHS-5244 (call number), CHS-5244 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8556 (legacy record id), chs-m8235 (legacy record id), 1-45- (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8556

Unique identifier UC125918

Legacy Identifier CHS-5244.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.9 in × 18.5 in at 300dpi
38.0 cm × 47.0 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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