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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Drying figs, Kern County, June 22, 1928
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Drying figs, Kern County, June 22, 1928
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Description
Photograph of drying figs in Kern County, June 22, 1928. The figs are spread out over shallow wooden trays across the ground at center. Empty trays are stacked behind them with dark trees just behind them and a ladder leaning on the pile. A wooden shed stands to the left of the empty trays with a small awning over its front wall. A field of tall plants lies on the far right.
Asset Metadata
Title
Drying figs, Kern County, June 22, 1928
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Date Created
1928-06-22
Subject
agricultural sites
(adlf),
Agriculture -- Crops -- Figs
(file heading),
Fig
(lcsh),
Orchards
(lcsh),
Trees
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1928-06-22
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 17 x 22 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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17622
Identifier
35681 (
accession number
), CHS-35681 (
call number
), CHS-35681 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-17612 (
legacy record id
), chs-m17622 (
legacy record id
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
17612
Unique identifier
UC142411
Legacy Identifier
CHS-35681.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.9 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
48.0 cm × 33.9 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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