California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Wide waterfall flowing into a river, showing rocks near foreground, Yosemite National Park, California, [s.d.]

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Wide waterfall flowing into a river, showing rocks near foreground, Yosemite National Park, California, [s.d.]

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Photograph of wide waterfall flowing into a river, showing rocks near foreground, Yosemite National Park, California, [s.d.]. In the foreground at center, large rocks can be seen in the large river with small rapids. To the left, the river curves upwards and meets a large waterfall at a cliff wall in the background. To the right on the other side of the river, large trees and rocks can be seen bordering the embankment. In the extreme background at center, a mountain peak is visible.

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Title Wide waterfall flowing into a river, showing rocks near foreground, Yosemite National Park, California, [s.d.]

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Subject Mountains (lcsh), Parks (lcsh), Trees (lcsh), Waterfalls (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries), Yosemite National Park (geographic subject)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 15 x 9 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)

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-m24147

Identifier 49646 (accession number), CHS-49646 (call number), CHS-49646 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-23347 (legacy record id), chs-m24147 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 23347

Unique identifier UC124120

Legacy Identifier CHS-49646.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.0 in × 23.0 in at 300dpi
38.3 cm × 58.4 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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