California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Lone man in a hat walking in the Colorado Desert near Palm Springs, 1903-1904

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Lone man in a hat walking in the Colorado Desert near Palm Springs, 1903-1904

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Photograph of a solitary man in a hat walking in the wind-swept sand, Colorado Desert near Palm Springs, 1903-1904. He can be seen walking towards the background. His footprints start in the foreground and terminate at a ridge where he stands in the distance. Scrub brush grows on the ridge.

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Title Lone man in a hat walking in the Colorado Desert near Palm Springs, 1903-1904

Creator Eytel, Carl (photographer)

Contributor C.C. Pierce & Co. (contributor)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1903/1904

Subject Calif. Scenes (subject), Deserts (lcsh), Deserts (adlf), Eytel, Carl (subject), Palm Springs -- Desert Subjects (subject), Photographers (lcsh), Riverside (subject), Riverside -- General (file heading), Riverside -- Palm Springs (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1903/1904

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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)

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-m7894

Identifier 2281 (accession number), CHS-2281 (call number), CHS-2281 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8125 (legacy record id), chs-m7894 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8021 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8269 (legacy record id), 1-81-60 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8125

Unique identifier UC124500

Legacy Identifier CHS-2281.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.0 in × 14.1 in at 300dpi
45.8 cm × 36.0 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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