Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
A group of people surrounding a pile of dead jackrabbits.
photCL Pierce 07664
Visual Materials
Spectators watching jack rabbits being driven into a corral.
photCL Pierce 07660
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Visual Materials
The C.C. Pierce collection constitutes one of the most important collections of historical photographs of early California and Los Angeles extant. The collection of 10,100 prints was assembled by Charles C. Pierce, a photographer and long-time operator of a thriving Los Angeles photographic business. The collection is divided into nine topical headings devised by Pierce; these include Los Angeles Historical; Indians; Missions; California cities, counties, etc.; Industries and Agriculture; Transportation; Natural History; Art and Architecture; and Miscellaneous Scenery. Within these large sections are smaller categories that focus on the history, landscape, people, civic and cultural events, built environment, and development of Southern California and the Southwest from approximately 1845-1930. Of particular interest are the various Indian tribes depicted as well as all twenty-one of the California Missions.
photCL Pierce
Additional Formats
Stereograph showing a dead Confederate soldier lying on the ground between a hat and a pile of rubble at Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia.
Stereograph collection, approximately 1850s-1910s.
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Visual Materials
Copy prints of early 20th century photographs of scenes, presumably in Northern California, consisting of three images of a rabbit drive including one of with men, women, and children, gathered around hundreds of dead rabbits (photPF 20016-20018); one photograph showing haying operations (photPF 20019), and one image of an open horse-drawn stage with passengers in the Yosemite Valley, with the wagon labeled "Yosemite Transportation Co." (photPF 20020). The photographer is unidentified.
photPF 20016-20020
Visual Materials
Edison Scrap Drives - A man standing beside a pile of junk coffee pots.
photCL SCE 02 - 02199