View of Salton Sea, California, ca.1910.
Title
View of Salton Sea , California , ca.1910 .
Description
Photograph of the Salton Sea, California, ca.1910. This is "one of the dry desolate buttes of the Salton Basin, now [ca.1910] converted into an island by the waters of the overflow [from heavy runoff breaking the levee of the then under-construction Imperial Canal at the Colorado River]. In a few weeks after its being surrounded by water it became the nesting grounds of tens of thousands of pelicans." The lake is visible to the right. There are several pieces of driftwood and vegetation grows in the bottom. There are islands in the background.
Subject (adlf)
lakes
Subject (file heading)
Imperial County -- Salton Sea ; Natural features -- Lakes -- Salton Sea
Subject (lcsh)
Lakes Pelicans
Geographic subject (county)
Imperial
Geographic subject (state)
California
Geographic subject (country)
USA
Coverage date
circa 1910
Photographer
Pierce , C.C . (Charles C.) , 1861-1946
Publisher (of the digital version)
University of Southern California . Libraries
Date created
circa 1910
Type
images
Format
glass plate negatives
Format (aacr2)
2 photographs : glass photonegative , photoprint , b&w ; 17 x 21 cm .
Format (aat)
photographic prints photographs
Contributing entity
California Historical Society
Accession number
4318
Call number
CHS-4318
Microfiche number
1-81-47
Legacy record ID
chs-m7259 ; USC-1-1-1-7388 ; USC-1-1-1-14232
Part of collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Project
USC
Rights
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license -- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ -- Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library ; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Physical access
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Repository name
USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address
Doheny Memorial Library , Los Angeles , CA 90089-0189
Repository email
specol@dots.usc.edu
Filename
CHS-4318
Archival file
chs_Volume57/CHS-4318.tiff
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