View of Strain's Camp on Mount Wilson, ca.1890

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Photograph Strain's Camp on Mount Wilson, ca.1890. There is a small log cabin at right; a single window is visible at extreme right and the front door is blocked from view by the branches of a small tree. To the left, there is a large tent structure composed of several smaller tents. Further up the wooded slope of the mountain are two more tents, pitched next to each other. There is a low rock retaining wall along the front side of the camp, and a set of wooden log stairs lead down the mountain.

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Title View of Strain's Camp on Mount Wilson, ca.1890

Subject camps (adlf), Mountains (lcsh), Natural features -- Mountains -- Mount Wilson (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), mountains: Mount Wilson (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1890

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1890

Creator Friend, Herve (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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19155

Identifier 10112 (accession number), CHS-10112 (call number), CHS-10112 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19067 (legacy record id), chs-m19155 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14244 (legacy record id), 1-84- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19067

Unique identifier UC136674

Legacy Identifier CHS-10112.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.8 in × 12.2 in at 300dpi
50.4 cm × 31.1 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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