Martin's camp on the old trail on Mount Wilson, California, ca.1890

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Photograph of Martin's camp on the old trail on Mount Wilson, California, ca.1890. About five small wooden buildings dot the camp which is on the slope surrounded by trees. Three people are on the covered porch of the building in the bottom left foreground. Three burros are visible tethered to a hitching line. The mountainside is visible in the background.; "Clarence S. Martin, 67 years of age, a pioneer resident of Pasadena and founder of Sweitzer camp, familiar as a resort for hunters throughout the Arroyo Seco district, died last night at the mountain resort. He is survived by one son, William Martin, a Pasadena buisiness man." -- Newspaper clipping, 1 September 1911.

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Title Martin's camp on the old trail on Mount Wilson, California, ca.1890

Subject Mountains (lcsh), Mountains (adlf), Natural features -- Mountains -- General -- Identified (file heading), trails (lcsh), Wilson, Mount (Calif. : Mountain) (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), mountains: Mount Wilson (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1890

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 16 x 22 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)

Date Created 1890

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m14950

Identifier 992 (accession number), CHS-992 (call number), CHS-992 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15584 (legacy record id), chs-m14950 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14235 (legacy record id), 1-84-11 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15584

Unique identifier UC143349

Legacy Identifier CHS-992.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.8 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
45.4 cm × 33.7 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

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