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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Chuckwalla (or Chuckawalla) Canyon in the Colorado Desert, ca.1903-1904
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Chuckwalla (or Chuckawalla) Canyon in the Colorado Desert, ca.1903-1904

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Photograph of 11 palm trees (Washingtonia Filifera) in Chuckwalla (or Chuckawalla) Canyon in the Colorado Desert, northeast of Palm Springs, near Indio, ca.1903-1904. There is little other vegetation in the sand except for some scrub brush in the right foreground. The ground beneath the palms are covered with fallen fronds. 
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Title Chuckwalla (or Chuckawalla) Canyon in the Colorado Desert, ca.1903-1904 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1903/1904 
Subject canyons  (adlf), Deserts  (lcsh), Palms  (lcsh), Riverside County -- General -- Canyons  (file heading), Views  (lcsh) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place California (states), canyons: Chuckwalla Canyon (geographic subject), Riverside (counties), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1903/1904 
Type images
Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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-m7907 
Identifier 2291 (accession number), CHS-2291 (call number), CHS-2291 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8138 (legacy record id), chs-m7907 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8034 (legacy record id), 1-45- (microfiche number), USC (project) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 8138 
Unique identifier UC124504 
Legacy Identifier CHS-2291.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 14.1 in × 17.9 in at 300dpi
35.8 cm × 45.5 cm at 300dpi 
Inherited Values
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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