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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Female motorist in the desert standing next to a warning sign for next available water, ca.1920-1930
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Female motorist in the desert standing next to a warning sign for next available water, ca.1920-1930
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Description
Photographic of a female motorist in the desert standing next to a warning sign for next available water, ca.1920-1930. A woman with short hair, dressed in a button-down shirt and cardigan stands to the left of a sign with her automobile visible parked along the dirt road in the center background. The sign reads "Next Drinking Water 128 Miles / Next Radiator Water 42 Miles / State Department of Health.".
Asset Metadata
Title
Female motorist in the desert standing next to a warning sign for next available water, ca.1920-1930
Subject
Agriculture -- Irrigation
(file heading),
Automobiles
(lcsh),
Deserts
(lcsh),
roadways
(adlf),
State Department of Health
(subject),
Transportation -- Automobiles -- General
(file heading),
Water-supply
(lcsh),
Women
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
deserts: Mojave Desert
(geographic subject),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1920/1930
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection),
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
(subcollection)
Date Created
1920/1930
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
(photographer)
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Repository Email
specol@lib.usc.edu
Repository Name
USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Location
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Rights
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Copyright
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9449
Identifier
7521 (
accession number
), CHS-7521 (
call number
), CHS-7521 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-9700 (
legacy record id
), chs-m9449 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-11865 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-9586 (
legacy record id
), 1-81-84 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
9700
Unique identifier
UC139809
Legacy Identifier
CHS-7521.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.3 in × 14.3 in at 300dpi
46.7 cm × 36.4 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
Description
The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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