China Ranch, south end of Death Valley, California, ca.1895

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Photograph of a view from above China Ranch on Amargosa Creek near Shoshone or Tecopa, at the south end of Death Valley, California, ca.1895. The few buildings of the ranch and a wooden post and rail fence are in the foreground. Large piles of hay[?] are at right in the foreground. A few head of livestock are grazing in the field beyond a copse of trees near the ranch buildings. The mountains rise in the background.

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Title China Ranch, south end of Death Valley, California, ca.1895

Subject agricultural sites (adlf), canyons (lcsh), Deserts (lcsh), Mountains (lcsh), Natural features -- Parks -- Death Valley (file heading), Parks (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place agricultural sites: China Ranch (geographic subject), California (states), deserts: Death Valley (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1895

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm., 21 x 26 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 1895

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-m15141

Identifier 1653 (accession number), CHS-1653 (call number), CHS-1653 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-14011 (legacy record id), chs-m15141 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14249 (legacy record id), 1-21- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 14011

Unique identifier UC143425

Legacy Identifier CHS-1653.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.0 in at 300dpi
43.3 cm × 33.1 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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