California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Sugar beets being unloaded outdoors at a factory, [s.d.]

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Sugar beets being unloaded outdoors at a factory, [s.d.]

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Photograph of sugar beets being unloaded outdoors at a factory, [s.d.]. In the foreground, a dirt path extends from the right background into the left foreground, running along partitions filled with sugar beets. Beyond the first row of partitions, horse-drawn carts bring the beets down a second path. Above, a wooden network of scaffold can be seen.

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Title Sugar beets being unloaded outdoors at a factory, [s.d.]

Subject Agriculture -- Crops -- Beet sugar (file heading), industrial sites (adlf), Sugar beet industry (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), 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)

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19853

Identifier 36436 (accession number), CHS-36436 (call number), CHS-36436 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19673 (legacy record id), chs-m19853 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19673

Unique identifier UC122303

Legacy Identifier CHS-36436.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.6 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
47.4 cm × 33.4 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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