California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Man pulling onions from the seed bed and preparing them for planting in the onion field, Petit Ranch, San Fernando Valley, near Van Nuys, February 3, 1930

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Man pulling onions from the seed bed and preparing them for planting in the onion field, Petit Ranch, San Fernando Valley, near Van Nuys, February 3, 1930

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Photograph of a man pulling onions from the seed bed and preparing them for planting in the onion field, Petit Ranch, San Fernando Valley, near Van Nuys, February 3, 1930. A man in a hat can be seen kneeling by the onion bed holding a group of onions in his left hand. Behind him, several other people can be seen engaging in various tasks around the onion bed. The mountains can be seen in the distance beyond rows of trees.

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Title Man pulling onions from the seed bed and preparing them for planting in the onion field, Petit Ranch, San Fernando Valley, near Van Nuys, February 3, 1930

Subject agricultural sites (adlf), Agriculture (lcsh), Agriculture -- Crops -- Onions (file heading), Onion industry (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Fernando Valley (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930-02-03

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1930-02-03

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-m17615

Identifier 35684 (accession number), CHS-35684 (call number), CHS-35684 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17605 (legacy record id), chs-m17615 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17605

Unique identifier UC142386

Legacy Identifier CHS-35684.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.7 in × 19.0 in at 300dpi
34.8 cm × 48.2 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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