California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Two men riding on a stage pulled by four horses across the plains, ca.1900

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Two men riding on a stage pulled by four horses across the plains, ca.1900

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Photograph of two men riding on a stage pulled by four horses across the plains, ca.1900. The galloping horses kick dirt and dust into the air forming a dust cloud around the bottom portion of the carriage. Shrubs and rocks are scattered across the plains (or desert floor?). Mountains are visible in the distance. Picture file card reads: "after the painting "The Desert Stage Between Goldfield and Bullfrog".

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Title Two men riding on a stage pulled by four horses across the plains, ca.1900

Subject Coaching (lcsh), Horses (lcsh), trails (adlf), Wagons (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w (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 1900

Contributor Grant Jackson Collection (provenance)

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-m17586

Identifier 6085 (accession number), CHS-6085 (call number), CHS-6085 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17576 (legacy record id), chs-m17586 (legacy record id), 1-91- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17576

Unique identifier UC142847

Legacy Identifier CHS-6085.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.2 in × 11.8 in at 300dpi
48.8 cm × 30.1 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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