California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Pima Indian woman winnowing beans over her head onto a mat on the ground, Gila River Reservation[?], ca.1902

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Pima Indian woman winnowing beans over her head onto a mat on the ground, Gila River Reservation[?], ca.1902

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Photograph of a Pima Indian woman winnowing beans over her head onto a mat on the ground, Gila River Reservation(?), ca.1902. The woman can be seen at center wearing a long, striped dress. A man with a child in his lap can be seen seated in the doorway of a straw hut behind the woman. A dog is visible laying next to the hut at right, while a pot and what appears to be another hut can be seen in the left background. Mountains can be seen in the distance at left, while desert shrubs are visible in the right background.

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Title Pima Indian woman winnowing beans over her head onto a mat on the ground, Gila River Reservation[?], ca.1902

Subject Dwellings (lcsh), Indians -- Pima (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), Pima Indians (subject), Pima Indians (lcsh), tribal areas (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Arizona (states), Gila River Reservation (city or populated place), Maricopa (counties), Pinal (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1902

Type images

Format 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 17 x 22 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 1902

Creator Thresher, George P. (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-m14648

Identifier 771 (accession number), CHS-771 (call number), CHS-771 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15286 (legacy record id), chs-m14648 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13956 (legacy record id), 1-14- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15286

Unique identifier UC143256

Legacy Identifier CHS-771.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.2 in × 12.2 in at 300dpi
41.3 cm × 31.0 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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