California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

People pulling onions from the seed bed and preparing them for planting in the onion field at Petit Ranch, San Fernando Valley, near Van Nuys, February 3, 1930

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People pulling onions from the seed bed and preparing them for planting in the onion field at Petit Ranch, San Fernando Valley, near Van Nuys, February 3, 1930

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Photograph of people pulling onions from the seed bed and preparing them for planting in the onion field at Petit Ranch, San Fernando Valley, near Van Nuys, February 3, 1930. A group of several people can be seen kneeling by rows of onions. A man in the left foreground is visible pulling some from the ground, while a woman behind him kneels and looks down. Several other people mill around the area, including a man in a dark hat, at center who sits beside a box of onions at left. In the distance, several other people can be seen walking around the field engaging in different activities. A row of tall trees stands by a roofed structure in the background, and mountains can be seen father down.

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Title People pulling onions from the seed bed and preparing them for planting in the onion field at Petit Ranch, San Fernando Valley, near Van Nuys, February 3, 1930

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1930-02-03

Subject agricultural sites (adlf), Agriculture (lcsh), Agriculture -- Crops -- Onions (file heading), Onion industry (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Fernando Valley (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930-02-03

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)

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-m17614

Identifier 35683 (accession number), CHS-35683 (call number), CHS-35683 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17604 (legacy record id), chs-m17614 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17604

Unique identifier UC142460

Legacy Identifier CHS-35683.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.3 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
46.5 cm × 33.3 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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