People posing in front of the Varney Brothers' General Merchandise Store in Heber, ca.1904

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Photograph of people posing in front of the Varney Brothers' General Merchandise Store in Heber, ca.1904. The store is at left and is an adobe building with a covered wooden porch and wooden façade. There are many people standing on the porch, including both men and women. Parked in front of the store are two horse-drawn wagons. There are three more buildings visible in the distance at center, and a wide dirt road runs into the distance from the foreground at center.

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Title People posing in front of the Varney Brothers' General Merchandise Store in Heber, ca.1904

Subject Building, Adobe (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Carriages and carts (lcsh), Horses (lcsh), Imperial County -- General (file heading), Stores, Retail (lcsh), Streets (lcsh), Varney Brothers General Merchandise (subject), Wagons (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Heber (city or populated place), Imperial (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1904

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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 1904

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7040

Identifier 14300 (accession number), CHS-14300 (call number), CHS-14300 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7188 (legacy record id), chs-m7040 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-7155 (legacy record id), 1-194- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7188

Unique identifier UC123137

Legacy Identifier CHS-14300.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.1 in × 9.4 in at 300dpi
51.1 cm × 24.0 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

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