California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Coahuilla Indian well at Martinez-Torres, 1903

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Coahuilla Indian well at Martinez-Torres, 1903

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Photograph of a well dug by the Coahuilla Indians at Martinez-Torres on the Colorado Desert, 1903. A man wearing a hat stands in the bottom of the well. Five wood fenceposts(?) stick up out of the ground near the opening of the well. Trees are visible in the background. Photoprint reads: "Dug probably about 1828".; "...Mr. Pierce writes: 'I ran across it at Torres, east of Palm Springs in 1903. The approach down the steps was 20 feet below the top and the water stood 50 feet below that. I was told by Captain Torres that it was dug by his people, the Coahuillas, about 75 years before (about 1828).'" -- The Masterkey, July 1939.

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Title Coahuilla Indian well at Martinez-Torres, 1903

Subject Cahuilla Indians (subject), Cahuilla Indians (lcsh), Engineering -- Aqueducts #1 -- General (file heading), Indians -- Mission -- Cahuilla (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), Mission Indians (subject), Riverside County -- General -- Desert views (file heading), Views (lcsh), Water-supply (lcsh), wells (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1903

Type images

Format 5 photographs : photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 13 x 10 cm., 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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)

Date Created 1903

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-m7892

Identifier 2300 (accession number), CHS-2300 (call number), CHS-2300 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8079 (legacy record id), chs-m7892 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10370 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13920 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8019 (legacy record id), 1-110-16 (microfiche number), 1-81-64 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8079

Unique identifier UC124535

Legacy Identifier CHS-2300.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 6.8 in × 8.5 in at 300dpi
17.2 cm × 21.7 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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