California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Panoramic view of a desert mining town on the Colorado River -- Hedges, ca.1905

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Panoramic view of a desert mining town on the Colorado River -- Hedges, ca.1905

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Photograph of panoramic view of a desert mining town on the Colorado River -- Hedges (later Tumco), Imperial County, ca.1905. A few small wood houses and shacks made up the town in the foreground. More of the town is visible in the distance beyond a processing plant of some sort (with two smokestacks) at right. A mining operation (specifically a long rail tressle for ore cars) can be seen in the foothills at left. A rail line curves around from the bottom right corner to the processing plant. Several ore cars and a couple of men are on the rails. (Part of cargo muchacho district, facing southwest -- wbc.)

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Title Panoramic view of a desert mining town on the Colorado River -- Hedges, ca.1905

Subject Industry -- Mining -- Imperial County (file heading), mine sites (adlf), Mines and mineral resources (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Imperial (counties), Tumco (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1905

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm., 20 x 25 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 1905

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13987

Identifier 1553 (accession number), CHS-1553 (call number), CHS-1553 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13456 (legacy record id), chs-m13987 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14144 (legacy record id), 1-111-11 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13456

Unique identifier UC137614

Legacy Identifier CHS-1553.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 8.5 in × 6.5 in at 300dpi
21.6 cm × 16.7 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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