California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Coachella Valley onions, ca.1925

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Coachella Valley onions, ca.1925

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Photograph of railroad refrigerator cars being loaded with Coachella Valley onions, ca.1925. Three trucks loaded with boxes (perhaps full of onions) stand beside the cars, at left. Several men load the cart contents into a car, which bears the name "Pacific Fruit Express" on its side. Further down, at right, a small structure sits, bearing the words "Urick and Hollis Growers and Shippers Onions Cantalopes Grapes Lettuce."

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Title Coachella Valley onions, ca.1925

Subject agricultural sites (adlf), Agriculture (lcsh), Agriculture -- Crops -- Onions (file heading), Onion industry (lcsh), Pacific Fruit Express Co. (corporate name)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1925

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1925

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-m17617

Identifier 35691 (accession number), CHS-35691 (call number), CHS-35691 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17607 (legacy record id), chs-m17617 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17607

Unique identifier UC142444

Legacy Identifier CHS-35691.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.7 in × 13.0 in at 300dpi
47.6 cm × 33.2 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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