California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of the Devil's Slide, looking south from the Union Pacific Railroad tracks, Wasatch Mountains, Utah, ca.1900-1930

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View of the Devil's Slide, looking south from the Union Pacific Railroad tracks, Wasatch Mountains, Utah, ca.1900-1930

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Photograph of a view of the Devil's Slide, looking south from the Union Pacific Railroad tracks, Wasatch Mountains, Utah, ca.1900-1930. The rugged limestone slide sits on the side of the mountain. Below the mountainside is a river (or creek?). Opposite of the river is the Union Pacific Railroad tracks. Trees cover the area between the river and the tracks. The mountainside is covered with shrub grass and sparsely scattered trees. Picture file card reads: "On U.P.R.R. east end of Ogden in Weber County."; "Devil's Slide is located 9 miles east of Morgan. Hundreds of legends associated with this natural formation have been recorded since the early 1800's when the Indians and Trappers roamed the area. The best tale of the bunch led to its rather fitting name and helped establish it as one of Utah's best-known natural wonders. The unusual limestone formation, which was painted by famed artist Thomas Moran in 1873, consists of two parallel reefs 20 feet apart and 40-foot or so high slabs running up the mountain. According to Rufus Wood Leigh's book, '500 Utah Place Names,' the chute was probably considered 'fit for a devil's slide.' The site is frequently listed in early railroad tourist guides. The railroad still runs right by the site, but most people see it today from their automobiles. Weber Canyon once had names that were associated with the Devil - Devil's Slide, Devil's Gate, the Devil's Chair, Devil's Looking Glass -- it was basically because it was such a treacherous and hard canyon to get through. About 170 million years ago the area around Devil's Slide was covered by a shallow sea. And on the floor of this sea, many layers of rock were formed. Some hard, some soft. The layers that eventually created the Devil's Slide formation were hard limestone. The limestone was turned on end during the uplifting of the Sevier Mountain Belt, beginning about 100 Million Years ago. Periods of uplift and erosion eventually resulted in the present Wasatch Mountains and the exposure of these beds." -- unknown author.

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Title View of the Devil's Slide, looking south from the Union Pacific Railroad tracks, Wasatch Mountains, Utah, ca.1900-1930

Subject Natural features -- Mountains -- General -- Identified (file heading), Natural features -- Rock formations (file heading), natural rock formations (adlf), Rocks (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place mountain ranges: Wasatch Mountains (geographic subject), USA (countries), Utah (states), Weber (counties)

Temporal Subject 1900/1930

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), 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 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-m17550

Identifier 5966 (accession number), CHS-5966 (call number), CHS-5966 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17542 (legacy record id), chs-m17550 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14235 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14308 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14322 (legacy record id), 1-80-42 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17542

Unique identifier UC142715

Legacy Identifier CHS-5966.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.0 in × 18.9 in at 300dpi
38.3 cm × 48.0 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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