California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Peculiar rock formation in Blue Canyon, Arizona, 1900-1930

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Peculiar rock formation in Blue Canyon, Arizona, 1900-1930

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Photograph of a peculiar rock formation in Blue Canyon, Arizona, 1900-1930. It looks like a group of fat people wearing capes. One formation is larger than the rest, towering over them. Scrub grass grows in the foreground.

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Title Peculiar rock formation in Blue Canyon, Arizona, 1900-1930

Subject Arizona -- Blue Canyon (file heading), canyons (lcsh), Natural features -- Parks -- Grand Canyon -- Canyons (file heading), natural rock formations (adlf), Outside California -- Arizona -- General (file heading), Rocks (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Arizona (states), canyons: Blue Canyon (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900/1930

Type images

Format 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 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 1900/1930

Creator James, George Wharton, 1858-1923 (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-m16447

Identifier 3903 (accession number), CHS-3903 (call number), CHS-3903 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-16386 (legacy record id), chs-m16447 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14011 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14255 (legacy record id), 1-219- (microfiche number), 1-91- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16386

Unique identifier UC141443

Legacy Identifier CHS-3903.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.7 in × 12.4 in at 300dpi
42.5 cm × 31.6 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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