California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Arizona Territorial Prison on Prison Hill, Yuma, Arizona, ca.1930

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Arizona Territorial Prison on Prison Hill, Yuma, Arizona, ca.1930

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Photograph of the Arizona Territorial Prison on Prison Hill, Yuma, Arizona, ca.1930. The outside yard and cell blocks are pictured. Barred doors can be seen on the cells, and the foundations of several buildings can be seen at center. Utility poles are visible in the background at right. A sign to the extreme right reads, "Old Prison Ru[ins] / Veterans of Foreign W[ars] / Clubhouse-Riverview / Visiting Invit[ed] No Camping". The prison, constructed by convict labor in 1876, was used until 1909.

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Title Arizona Territorial Prison on Prison Hill, Yuma, Arizona, ca.1930

Subject Arizona -- Yuma (file heading), Arizona Territorial Prison (subject), Building, Adobe (lcsh), correctional facilities (adlf), Prisons -- Design and construction (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Arizona (states), USA (countries), Yuma (city or populated place), Yuma (counties)

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 10 x 13 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 1930

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7551

Identifier 6285 (accession number), CHS-6285 (call number), CHS-6285 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7682 (legacy record id), chs-m7551 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-7678 (legacy record id), 1-219- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7682

Unique identifier UC123494

Legacy Identifier CHS-6285.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.3 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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