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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Coahuilla Indian women in front of their "kish," California, ca.1900
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Coahuilla Indian women in front of their "kish," California, ca.1900
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Description
Photograph of two Coahuilla Indian women in front of their "kish" or dwelling, California, ca.1900. They both sit on blankets on the ground with baskets and pottery. The kish consists of a thatched dome behind them. A dog sleeps on the ground at right.
Asset Metadata
Title
Coahuilla Indian women in front of their "kish," California, ca.1900
Subject
Cahuilla Indians
(subject),
Cahuilla Indians
(lcsh),
Coahuilla Indians
(subject),
Dwellings
(lcsh),
Indians -- Mission -- Cahuilla
(subject),
Indians of North America
(lcsh),
Mission Indians
(subject),
tribal areas
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1900
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 8 x 10 in.; 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
Creator
James, George Wharton
(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-m17136
Identifier
4750 (
accession number
), CHS-4750 (
call number
), CHS-4750 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-17148 (
legacy record id
), chs-m17136 (
legacy record id
), 1-172- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
), James-2017 (
unidentified no.
), James-2018 (
unidentified no.
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
17148
Unique identifier
UC142102
Legacy Identifier
CHS-4750.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 12.9 in at 300dpi
43.4 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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