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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Darwin, California on the road to Death Valley, ca.1926
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View of Darwin, California on the road to Death Valley, ca.1926
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Description
Photograph of Darwin, CA on the road to Death Valley, ca.1926. The small town is visible at center in the distance and is composed of a handful of small wooden buildings; those on the right have square façades. A dirt road goes from the middle of the bottom edge to the middle of the right edge and is marked by tire tracks. A mountain range rises in the distance. The ground around the town is covered with small desert shrubs and rocks.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Darwin, California on the road to Death Valley, ca.1926
Subject
canyons
(lcsh),
cities
(adlf),
Deserts
(lcsh),
Mountains
(lcsh),
Natural features -- Parks -- Death Valley
(file heading),
Parks
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Darwin
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1926
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
1926
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19173
Identifier
10221 (
accession number
), CHS-10221 (
call number
), CHS-10221 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-19085 (
legacy record id
), chs-m19173 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14249 (
legacy record id
), 1-27- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
19085
Unique identifier
UC136701
Legacy Identifier
CHS-10221.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 35.2 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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