Historical Society of SouthernCalifornia Collection -- Charles C. Puck Collection of Negatives andPhotographs 1864-1963 (bulk 1920s-1950s)

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Historical Society of SouthernCalifornia Collection -- Charles C. Puck Collection of Negatives andPhotographs 1864-1963 (bulk 1920s-1950s)

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The Puck Collection consists ofphotographs both taken and collected by Charles C. Puck. They depict buildings,monuments, civic happenings, modes of transportation, flora and fauna, and anythingelse that captured his particular interests. Puck compiled several scrapbooks ontopics such as adobes and buildings of Los Angeles, illustrating them with hisphotographs and annotating them with historical anecdotes and personalrecollections. Puck also collected the work of noted Los Angeles photographers likeCharles C. Pierce and James B. Blanchard to supplement his own archive. At the timeof his gift to the Historical Society of Southern California, Puck had amassed alarge array of images documenting the changing face of Los Angeles and itsenvirons.

11,400 photographs; 42 boxes; (30.29 linear feet)

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