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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Borax Smith's 20-mule team hauling borax across the desert, Death Valley [?], ca.1890
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Borax Smith's 20-mule team hauling borax across the desert, Death Valley [?], ca.1890
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Description
Photograph of Borax Smith's 20-mule team hauling borax across the desert in two wagons from mines in Death Valley [?], ca.1890. Scrub brush grows in the foreground. A barren hill rises in the background.; Photograph taken in the Calico Mountains. -- According to letter from Harold Wright, Calico Press, 6 December 1951.
Asset Metadata
Title
Borax Smith's 20-mule team hauling borax across the desert, Death Valley [?], ca.1890
Subject
Borax & Salt Industry
(subject),
Borax Industry
(subject),
Borax mines and mining
(lcsh),
Deserts
(adlf),
Industry -- Borax (salt)
(subject),
Salt industry and trade
(lcsh),
Salt lakes
(lcsh),
Transportation
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
canyons: Mule Canyon
(geographic subject),
deserts: Death Valley
(geographic subject),
mountain ranges: Calico Mountains
(geographic subject),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1890
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(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
Contributor
Mrs. Forbes
(provenance)
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-m17252
Identifier
4952 (
accession number
), CHS-4952 (
call number
), CHS-4952 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-17254 (
legacy record id
), chs-m17252 (
legacy record id
), 1-104-11 (
microfiche number
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
17254
Unique identifier
UC141858
Legacy Identifier
CHS-4952.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 35.0 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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