California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Women picking and planting onions in an onion field within an intercropped date orchard, [s.d.]

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Women picking and planting onions in an onion field within an intercropped date orchard, [s.d.]

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Photograph of women picking and planting onions in an onion field within an intercropped date orchard, [s.d.]. To the left of center, six women kneel and tend to the furrows in-between the rows of date palms to the left and right. To the right, farther in the background, more women can be seen. What appear to be fir trees frame the crop to the far left and right.

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Title Women picking and planting onions in an onion field within an intercropped date orchard, [s.d.]

Subject agricultural sites (adlf), Agriculture -- Crops -- Dates (file heading), Date (lcsh), Orchards (lcsh), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

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)

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-m17595

Identifier 36009 (accession number), CHS-36009 (call number), CHS-36009 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17585 (legacy record id), chs-m17595 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17585

Unique identifier UC142438

Legacy Identifier CHS-36009.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.5 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
47.0 cm × 33.6 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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