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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Group of Pima Indian farmers building a dam for irrigation, ca.1900
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Group of Pima Indian farmers building a dam for irrigation, ca.1900
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Description
Photograph of group of about ten Pima Indian farmers building a dam for irrigation, ca.1900. Most of them are bent over shovels as they dig near the standing water in the field. Others, at right, work with axes to remove twigs and branches from small logs to be used in the dam.
Asset Metadata
Title
Group of Pima Indian farmers building a dam for irrigation, ca.1900
Subject
Farmers
(lcsh),
Indians -- Pima
(file heading),
Indians of North America
(lcsh),
Irrigation
(lcsh),
Men
(lcsh),
Pima Indians
(subject),
Pima Indians
(lcsh),
tribal areas
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1900
Type
images
Format
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
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-m16223
Identifier
3609 (
accession number
), CHS-3609 (
call number
), CHS-3609 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-16162 (
legacy record id
), chs-m16223 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-13956 (
legacy record id
), 1-175- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
16162
Unique identifier
UC140825
Legacy Identifier
CHS-3609.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
43.2 cm × 33.6 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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