California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Agua Caliente Indian woman, Nievas Chaves, with a metate stone, 1903

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Agua Caliente Indian woman, Nievas Chaves, with a metate stone, 1903

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Photograph of an Agua Caliente Indian woman, Nievas Chaves, with a metate stone (used for grinding grain), 1903. She is kneeling on the ground outside with her four children standing (or sitting) behind (and beside) her. She is the daughter of Simon and Sensioni Cibinoat.

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Title Agua Caliente Indian woman, Nievas Chaves, with a metate stone, 1903

Creator James, George Wharton (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1903

Subject Agua Caliente (Warner's Ranch) -- Mission Indians (subject), Children (lcsh), Cookery (lcsh), Indians of North America (lcsh), Mission Indians (subject), tribal areas (adlf), Women (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1903

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 22 x 17 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)

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-m16410

Identifier 3833 (accession number), CHS-3833 (call number), CHS-3833 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-16349 (legacy record id), chs-m16410 (legacy record id), 1-172- (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16349

Unique identifier UC140963

Legacy Identifier CHS-3833.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.1 in × 17.0 in at 300dpi
33.4 cm × 43.2 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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