California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Pima Indian woman, Etta Morgan, making a basket, Arizona, ca.1900

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Pima Indian woman, Etta Morgan, making a basket, Arizona, ca.1900

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Photograph of a Pima Indian woman, Etta Morgan, making a basket, Arizona, ca.1900. She is sitting on the ground outside with her back leaning against a blanket in front of a small pile of adobe bricks holding a small partially completed basket on her lap. Another shallow basket in front of her holds some of her basket-making material. She wears a long print dress. A hewn timber lays beside the pile of bricks.

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Title Pima Indian woman, Etta Morgan, making a basket, Arizona, ca.1900

Subject Basketry (lcsh), Indians -- Pima (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), Pima Indians (subject), Pima Indians (lcsh), Pima Indians -- Basketry (subject), tribal areas (adlf), Women (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Arizona (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 22 x 17 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

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16258

Identifier 3648 (accession number), CHS-3648 (call number), CHS-3648 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-16197 (legacy record id), chs-m16258 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13956 (legacy record id), 1-162- (microfiche number), 1-175- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16197

Unique identifier UC140992

Legacy Identifier CHS-3648.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.0 in × 16.8 in at 300dpi
33.1 cm × 42.8 cm at 300dpi

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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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