View of the Salton Sea at sunset, Riverside County, southern California, ca.1900-1930

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Photograph of a view of the Salton Sea at sunset, Riverside County, southern California, ca.1900-1930. Clouds above the sea partially blocks the suns rays but allows enough to penetrate creating a spectacular view of broken sunrays. The sea is calm. Mountains are visible in the distance. Picture file card reads: "Salton Sea at sunset, when it was a sea. 265' below sea level."; "The Salton Sea was formed between 1905 and 1907 when the Colorado River burst through poorly built irrigation controls south of Yuma, Arizona. Almost the entire flow of the river filled the Salton Basin for more than a year, inundating communities, farms and the main line of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Continued filling of the Salton Sink was finally stopped in 1907, when a line of protective levees was built by boxcars dumping boulders into the breach from Southern Pacific tracks. By then, this inland lake was about 40 miles long and 13 miles wide, covering an area of about 400 square miles. The Salton Sea is currently 35 miles by 15 miles and can be as long as 40 miles by almost 20 miles in particularly wet years. It has an average depth of 29.9 feet and, at its deepest, is 51 feet. It contains 7.3 million acre feet of water and evaporates 1.3 million acre feet each year. There is a five-mile-long trench on the south end of the Sea that is 51 feet deep. The Sea is currently 228 feet below sea level. Interestingly, the bed of the Salton Sea is only five feet higher than the lowest spot in Death Valley." -- unknown author.

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Title View of the Salton Sea at sunset, Riverside County, southern California, ca.1900-1930

Subject Deserts (lcsh), Lakes (lcsh), Natural features -- Deserts -- Mojave (file heading), Natural features -- Lakes -- Salton Sea (file heading), seas (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), lakes: Salton Sea (geographic subject), Riverside (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900/1930

Type images

Format 2 photographs : 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 1900/1930

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-m14069

Identifier 5945 (accession number), CHS-5945 (call number), CHS-5945 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13615 (legacy record id), chs-m14069 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14228 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14232 (legacy record id), 1-81-79 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13615

Unique identifier UC137671

Legacy Identifier CHS-5945.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.0 in × 14.8 in at 300dpi
48.4 cm × 37.8 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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