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