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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Automobile by a small crater and Redwood trees in Henry Cowell Park, ca.1900
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Automobile by a small crater and Redwood trees in Henry Cowell Park, ca.1900

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Photograph of an automobile by a small crater and Redwood trees in Henry Cowell Park, ca.1900. An automobile can be seen from above obscured by three thin, tall tree trunks. The trees are visible behind a small crater in the dirt. A man wearing a long coat, tie, and cap can be seen standing in front of a Redwood tree in the left foreground, while a second tree is visible in the right foreground. A few tents and small trees can be seen in the background. 
Asset Metadata
Title Automobile by a small crater and Redwood trees in Henry Cowell Park, ca.1900 
Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer) 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1900 
Subject Henry Cowell Park  (subject), Natural features -- Parks -- Henry Cowell Park  (file heading), Parks  (lcsh), Parks  (adlf), Redwood  (lcsh), Trees  (lcsh) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place California (states), Santa Cruz (counties), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1900 
Type images
Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), 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) 
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-m14088 
Identifier 11782 (accession number), CHS-11782 (call number), CHS-11782 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13647 (legacy record id), chs-m14088 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14248 (legacy record id), 1-73-49 (microfiche number), USC (project) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 13647 
Unique identifier UC137479 
Legacy Identifier CHS-11782.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 15.9 in × 20.4 in at 300dpi
40.6 cm × 51.8 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960 
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