California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Navajo Indian family living in ancient cliff dwellings, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, 1903

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Navajo Indian family living in ancient cliff dwellings, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, 1903

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Photograph of Navajo Indian family living in ancient cliff dwellings, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, 1903. A man sitting on a burro can be seen to the left of center, while five children are visible near the ruin of a stone cliff-dwelling at center. Behind the man, a series of wooden poles can be seen near a small brick wall along the cliff. Various sacks and pots can be seen near the feet of the children. In the foreground, a woman can be seen sitting on the ground near large rocks and brush. Another burro stands at left. The sharply inward sloping cliff face casts shadow on part of the dwelling.

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Title Navajo Indian family living in ancient cliff dwellings, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, 1903

Subject achaeological sites (adlf), Cliff Dwellers (file heading), Cliff-dwellers (subject), Cliff-dwellers (lcsh), cliffs (lcsh), Dwellings (lcsh), Indians -- Navajo (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), Navajo Indians (subject), Navajo Indians (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Arizona (states), canyons: Canyon de Chelly (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1903

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1903

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-m17080

Identifier 4340 (accession number), CHS-4340 (call number), CHS-4340 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17092 (legacy record id), chs-m17080 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13506 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13946 (legacy record id), 1-165- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17092

Unique identifier UC142140

Legacy Identifier CHS-4340.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 12.9 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 32.7 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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