California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Balanced Rock on trail to Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, 1850-1930

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Balanced Rock on trail to Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, 1850-1930

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Photograph of Balanced Rock on trail to Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park. Yosemite Falls in distance. A trail and cabin are visible in the distance looking down.

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Title Balanced Rock on trail to Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, 1850-1930

Subject Glacier Point (Calif.) (lcsh), Mountains (lcsh), Mountains (adlf), Natural features -- Parks -- Yosemite -- General views (file heading), Trees (lcsh), Waterfalls (lcsh), Yosemite national park (Calif.) (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1850/1930

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1850/1930

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-m14705

Identifier 867 (accession number), CHS-867 (call number), CHS-867 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15341 (legacy record id), chs-m14705 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14275 (legacy record id), 1-60-18 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15341

Unique identifier UC143224

Legacy Identifier CHS-867.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 12.5 in × 16.6 in at 300dpi
31.9 cm × 42.4 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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