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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Coahuilla Indian funeral in the cemetery where Alesandro (of Ramona fame) is buried, ca.1896
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Coahuilla Indian funeral in the cemetery where Alesandro (of Ramona fame) is buried, ca.1896
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Photograph of a Coahuilla Indian funeral in the cemetery where Alesandro (of Ramona fame) is buried, ca.1896. A group of about 30 men, women and children are gathered about a gravesite. Small picket fences surround some of the graves. Crosses mark many of the graves. A small grouping of large stones lay on the ground in the background. Scrub brush and grass grow in the foreground. Ramona was made famous in the novel of the same name by Helen Hunt Jackson.
Asset Metadata
Title
Coahuilla Indian funeral in the cemetery where Alesandro (of Ramona fame) is buried, ca.1896
Subject
Cahuilla Indians
(subject),
Cahuilla Indians
(lcsh),
Cemeteries
(adlf),
Coahuilla Indians
(subject),
Coahuilla, Mission Indians -- Ramona
(subject),
Funeral rites and ceremonies
(lcsh),
Indians -- Mission -- Cahuilla
(subject),
Indians -- Ramona -- Subjects
(file heading),
Indians of North America
(lcsh),
Mission Indians
(subject),
Ramona
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1896
Type
images
Format
2 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
1896
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-m16411
Identifier
3834 (
accession number
), CHS-3834 (
call number
), CHS-3834 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-16350 (
legacy record id
), chs-m16411 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14072 (
legacy record id
), 1-172- (
microfiche number
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
16350
Unique identifier
UC140964
Legacy Identifier
CHS-3834.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.9 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 33.4 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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