View of a train yard in Modesto, Stanislaus County, 1900-1940

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Photograph of a view of a train yard in Modesto, Stanislaus County, 1900-1940. Trains on train tracks are visible running from bottom left towards center right. Buildings composed of vertical wooden planks are visible to the left of the tracks. Beyond those buildings to the left are additional various-shaped buildings. Most have flat roofs, while two have towers. "Gen. Arthur Cigar" is painted on the side of one building at center, while utility poles, a dirt road, and trees run parallel to the train tracks at right. Flat, open land is visible in the background.

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Title View of a train yard in Modesto, Stanislaus County, 1900-1940

Subject railroad features (adlf), Stanislaus County -- General (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Modesto (city or populated place), Stanislaus (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900/1940

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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)

Date Created 1900/1940

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-m14150

Identifier 45688 (accession number), CHS-45688 (call number), CHS-45688 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13708 (legacy record id), chs-m14150 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14311 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13708

Unique identifier UC137625

Legacy Identifier CHS-45688.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.9 in × 16.3 in at 300dpi
53.0 cm × 41.4 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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