Dwight Pierce(1881-?) Papers, 1896-1953

Finding aid created by Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County staff using RecordEXPRESS
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90007-4057
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2016


Descriptive Summary

Title: Dwight Pierce(1881-?) Papers, 1896-1953
Dates: 1896-1953
Collection Number: GC 1060
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 1 linear ft.
Repository: Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, California 90007-4057
Abstract: Photographs, postcards, and ephemera gathered while traveling; clippings; maps; and other materials that belonged to Pierce.
Language of Material: English

Access

Research is by appointment only

Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

Dwight Pierce(1881-?) Papers, 1896-1953. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Biography/Administrative History

Entomologist who worked at the Los Angeles County Museum.

Scope and Content of Collection

Photographs, postcards, and ephemera gathered while traveling; clippings; maps; and other materials that belonged to Pierce. Most of the photographs and clippings are glued to annotated notebook pages. Photographic and postcard views are of Mammoth Lakes, the Devil's Post Pile, Rainbow Falls, Bodie, and Redondo Beach in California; Colorado; Hawaii; the Philippines; and Luray caverns in Virginia. There is some correspondence and ephemera from the Pierces' trip to the Orient, as well as photographs of shipboard activities and of China and Japan. Scrapbook pages hold clippings about Pierce and the L.A. County Museum.