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Title	Pelicans at the Salton Sea, California, ca.1910
Description	Photograph of a group of more than 50 pelicans roosting on a dry desolate butte 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." Dozens of pelicans are flying over the butte (blurred). The lake is visible at right and in the background.
Subject (adlf)	deserts
Subject (file heading)	Natural features -- Lakes -- Salton Sea
Subject (lcsh)	Lakes Pelicans
Geographic subject	lakes: Salton Sea
Geographic subject (county)	Riverside
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
Accession number	4317
Call number	CHS-4317
Microfiche number	1-61-
Legacy record ID	chs-m8125; 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	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-4317
Archival file	chs_Volume62/CHS-4317.tiff

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