California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

An indian woman, Bacilla, at 114 years of age, 1899

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An indian woman, Bacilla, at 114 years of age, 1899

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Photograph of Bacilla, an indian woman at 114 years of age, 1899. Sitting on the ground with her knees pulled up against her chest. She is covered with a blanket and wears a kerchief hat. The wall of a grass hut is visible behind her as is a large pot and clothing on the ground. As a child she carried brick for the building of Mission San Luis Rey.

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Title An indian woman, Bacilla, at 114 years of age, 1899

Subject Indians (subject), Mission San Luis Rey (subject), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), Portrait file (subject), San Luis Rey de Francia Mission (subject), tribal areas (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Temporal Subject 1899

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 20 x 17 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)

Date Created 1899

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer), Thresher, George P. (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-m14440

Identifier 501 (accession number), CHS-501 (call number), CHS-501 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15080 (legacy record id), chs-m14440 (legacy record id), 1-140- (microfiche number), 1-172- (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15080

Unique identifier UC137901

Legacy Identifier CHS-501.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.2 in × 17.3 in at 300dpi
33.6 cm × 44.1 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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