California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Rojerio, the San Fernando Mission chorister, gathering the fruit of the cactus for food, July, 1898

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Rojerio, the San Fernando Mission chorister, gathering the fruit of the cactus for food, July, 1898

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Photograph of Rojerio, the San Fernando Mission chorister, gathering the fruit of the cactus for food, July, 1898. The 119-year-old man stands very short at center with patched pants and dingy jacket. He holds a large stick in his right hand and wears a hat which shades his bearded face. He stands in a patch of tall, spiny plants while what appear to be prickly pear cacti stand over him. Flat, spiny discs form these large plants.

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Title Rojerio, the San Fernando Mission chorister, gathering the fruit of the cactus for food, July, 1898

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1898-07

Subject agricultural sites (adlf), Botany -- Cacti (file heading), Cactus (lcsh), Indians of North America (lcsh), Portraits -- R (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), San Fernando Valley (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1898-07

Type images

Format 4 photographs : photonegative, transparency, photoprints, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm., 17 x 21 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat), transparencies (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-m14486

Identifier 579 (accession number), CHS-579 (call number), CHS-579 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15126 (legacy record id), chs-m14486 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14203 (legacy record id), 1-130- (microfiche number), 1-172 (microfiche number), 1-49- (microfiche number), 1-77-7 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15126

Unique identifier UC137841

Legacy Identifier CHS-579.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.5 in × 14.3 in at 300dpi
47.1 cm × 36.4 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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