California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Workers planting onions on the Petit Ranch, San Fernando Valley, near Van Nuys, [s.d.]

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Workers planting onions on the Petit Ranch, San Fernando Valley, near Van Nuys, [s.d.]

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Photograph of workers planting onions on the Petit Ranch, San Fernando Valley, near Van Nuys, [s.d.]. Nearly one-hundred workers can be seen throughout the plowed dirt field bent over planting onions. Four workers are visible near the foreground, while the rest are visible in the distance. A wooden building can be seen in the background at left, while trees can be seen across the background. Mountains are visible in the distance. Two hundred acres were planted in onions.

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Title Workers planting onions on the Petit Ranch, San Fernando Valley, near Van Nuys, [s.d.]

Subject agricultural sites (adlf), Agriculture (lcsh), Agriculture -- Crops -- Onions (file heading), Onion industry (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-m17609

Identifier 36821 (accession number), CHS-36821 (call number), CHS-36821 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17599 (legacy record id), chs-m17609 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17599

Unique identifier UC142419

Legacy Identifier CHS-36821.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
47.7 cm × 33.7 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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