California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Train of covered wagons on the Santa Fe Trail, [s.d.]

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Train of covered wagons on the Santa Fe Trail, [s.d.]

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Photograph of a train of covered wagons on the Santa Fe Trail, [s.d.]. A line of horse-drawn covered wagons make their way to the left across the plains, driving up a cloud of dust behind them. A man on horseback stands in front of them, apart from the wagons. Picture file card reads: "The covered wagon" and "Doctor End".

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Title Train of covered wagons on the Santa Fe Trail, [s.d.]

Subject Pioneers (lcsh), trails (adlf), Wagons (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w. (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)

Contributor Miss Annette Glick Collection (provenance)

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-m18028

Identifier 7805 (accession number), CHS-7805 (call number), CHS-7805 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18059 (legacy record id), chs-m18028 (legacy record id), 1-155- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18059

Unique identifier UC113674

Legacy Identifier CHS-7805.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.4 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
41.6 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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