Charles C. Pierce Collection

Navajo family living in ancient cliff dwellings, Canyon de Chelly

 

Navajo mother with children, New Mexico

  

Old Indian women of San Fernando Mission, 1890

 

Paiute woman grinding acorns in wooden mortar, Yosemite Valley

 

Wallapai women at home, Arizona

 

Yuma Indians ready to play Pole & Hoop game, Arizona

 

Source: California Digital Archive

Charles C. Pierce Collection

Main Street North from Fourth St., Los Angeles, 1924

  

 Santa Monica, opening day of Pacific Electric Railroad, April 1, 1896

  

Spanish dancers at plaza, Olvera Street, Los Angeles, 1920

  

Tennis players costumes of early days, ca. 1900

  

Tenth and Spring Streets - run on 

All Night & Day Bank, Los Angeles, 1910

Source: California Digital Archive 

Charles C. Pierce Collection

 Chinese young ladies, Los Angeles, Chinatown, Los Angeles

[are they holding opium pipes?]

  

Going in to the mines in the early days

  

 House built and occupied by John D. Lee when in hiding. He was a 

Morman elder and headed the 1857 Mountain Meadow Massacre.

  

 Pala Indian girls, mandolin players

  

Paper dragon carried by Los Angeles Chinatown citizens in parade, 1901

 

Source: California Digital Archive

Charles C. Pierce Collection

Friday Morning Club entry in La Fiesta de Los Angeles, 1896

  

Los Angeles Fiesta. East from 5th from Hill. Business men as clowns, 1901

  

Los Angeles, Adams & Figueroa looking West, 1924

  

Luncheon for ladies of L.A. Chamber of Commerce in Hawaii, 1907

  

Spring Street North from Fourth St., Los Angeles, 1924

 

Source: California Digital Archive

Charles C. Pierce Collection

 Bathers, Long Beach

  

 Electric side walk car used along beach front, Venice/Santa Monica, ca. 1926

  

 Fording the Little Colorado, 1903

  

 Gutzon Borglum and his wife painting the mill, San Marino, 1887

[about this artist]

    

Hilario Ybarra home & family. Upper Main Street, Los Angeles, ca. 1890

 

Source: California Digital Archive

Charles C. Pierce Collection

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 (1861-1946), a photographer and long-time operator of a thriving Los Angeles photographic business. 

The Chemehuevi are an indigenous people of the Great Basin. They are the southernmost branch of Paiute. "Chemehuevi" has multiple interpretations. It is considered to either be a Mojave term meaning "those who play with fish;" or a Quechan word meaning "nose-in-the-air-like-a-roadrunner." The Chemehuevi call themselves Nüwüwü ("The People") or Tantáwats, meaning "Southern Men."  [Wikipedia]

A Chemehuevi Madonna; cache for mesquite beans in the back

  

Chemehuevi girls grinding mesquite beans

  

Chemehuevi Indian basket weaver making splints

  

Chemehuevi Indian Group

  

Chemehuevi Storyteller

  

Source: California Digital Archive