California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Railroad track and cable car near a large mountain, showing workbench in foreground, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, [s.d.]

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Railroad track and cable car near a large mountain, showing workbench in foreground, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, [s.d.]

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Photograph of railroad track and cable car near a large mountain, showing workbench in foreground, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, [s.d.]. In the extreme foreground to the left, a pile of stacked wooden boards can be seen. Behind the stack, a wooden workbench partially covered with a cloth-like material can be seen. In the background, a single railroad track is visible extending from the far left to the far right. At right, a rectangular freight car can be seen. In the extreme background, a large mountain covered with trees with a rounded peak is visible.

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Title Railroad track and cable car near a large mountain, showing workbench in foreground, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, [s.d.]

Subject Mountains (lcsh), Mountains (adlf), Parks (lcsh), Railroads (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Idaho (states), Montana (states), USA (countries), Wyoming (states), Yellowstone Park (counties)

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)

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-m24073

Identifier 49623 (accession number), CHS-49623 (call number), CHS-49623 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-23040 (legacy record id), chs-m24073 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 23040

Unique identifier UC124121

Legacy Identifier CHS-49623.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.1 in × 22.9 in at 300dpi
38.3 cm × 58.2 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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