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Cemetery at Cahuilla, where Alessandro is buried, ca.1896
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Cemetery at Cahuilla, where Alessandro is buried, ca.1896
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Description
Photograph of the cemetery at Cahuilla (Coahuilla), where Alessandro is buried, ca.1896. Situated in a desolate area near a pile of boulders, half a dozen or so picket fences surround some grave sites. Others are marked only with crosses. Low vegetation predominates. Alessandro is well-known from the novel of Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson.
Asset Metadata
Title
Cemetery at Cahuilla, where Alessandro is buried, ca.1896
Subject
Alessandro
(subject),
Books
(lcsh),
Cahuilla Indians
(subject),
Cahuilla Indians
(lcsh),
Cemeteries
(adlf),
Coahuilla Indians
(subject),
Fiction
(lcsh),
Indians -- Mission -- Cahuilla
(file heading),
Indians -- Ramona -- Subjects
(file heading),
Indians of North America
(lcsh),
Mission Indians
(subject),
Mission Indians -- Ramona
(subject),
Missions, Spanish
(lcsh),
Ramona
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Cahuilla
(city or populated place),
California
(states),
Palm Springs
(city or populated place),
Riverside
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1896
Type
images
Format
5 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm., 21 x 26 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
1896
Creator
Thresher, George P.
(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-m17064
Identifier
4745 (
accession number
), CHS-4745 (
call number
), CHS-4745 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-17077 (
legacy record id
), chs-m17064 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-13920 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14072 (
legacy record id
), 1-172- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
), James-2004 (
unidentified no.
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
17077
Unique identifier
UC142129
Legacy Identifier
CHS-4745.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.9 in × 12.9 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 32.8 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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