View of the snow-covered Mount Shasta, and neighboring mountain Shastina, Siskiyou County, ca.1900-1940

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Photograph of a view of the snow-covered Mount Shasta (right), and neighboring mountain Shastina (left), overlooking a hilly oasis of trees, Siskiyou County, ca.1900-1940.; "Mount Shasta is located in the Cascade Range in northern California about 65 kilometers (40 miles) south of the Oregon-California border and about midway between the Pacific Coast and the Nevada border. One of the largest and highest of the Cascade volcanoes, snowclad Mount Shasta is near the southern end of the range that terminates near Lassen Peak. Mount Shasta is a massive compound stratovolcano composed of overlapping cones centered at four or more main vents; it was constructed during a period of more than 100,000 years." -- unknown author.

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Title View of the snow-covered Mount Shasta, and neighboring mountain Shastina, Siskiyou County, ca.1900-1940

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Siskiyou (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900/1940

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 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 1900/1940

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-m17293

Identifier 5080 (accession number), CHS-5080 (call number), CHS-5080 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17295 (legacy record id), chs-m17293 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14330 (legacy record id), 1-84- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17295

Unique identifier UC141917

Legacy Identifier CHS-5080.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.5 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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