California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Portrait of Juana Torres, wife of Luis Torres, east of Palm Springs, ca.1903

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Portrait of Juana Torres, wife of Luis Torres, east of Palm Springs, ca.1903

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Photograph of Juana Torres, wife of Captain Luis Torres, east of Palm Springs, ca.1903. She can be seen from the thighs up sitting in a chair with a wooden back with her hands clasped in front of her abdomen. She is wearing a light long sleeve bouse and a polka dot dress. Her clothing is somewhat soiled, while her dark hair is worn long and falls behind her head. Her complexion is dark. Behind her is the mud or adobe wall of a building with a thatched roof.

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Title Portrait of Juana Torres, wife of Luis Torres, east of Palm Springs, ca.1903

Subject Portraits -- Torres (file heading), Torres, Juana (subject), Torres, Luis (subject), Women (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Palm Springs (city or populated place), Torres (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1903

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1903

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-m13824

Identifier 2296 (accession number), CHS-2296 (call number), CHS-2296 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13313 (legacy record id), chs-m13824 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13980 (legacy record id), 1-172- (microfiche number), 1-90-666 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13313

Unique identifier UC136835

Legacy Identifier CHS-2296.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.3 in × 16.6 in at 300dpi
33.8 cm × 42.4 cm at 300dpi

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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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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