California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of the Pulpit Rock, a natural rock formation located near the mouth of Echo Canyon, Echo City, Utah, ca.1900-1930

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View of the Pulpit Rock, a natural rock formation located near the mouth of Echo Canyon, Echo City, Utah, ca.1900-1930

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Photograph of a view of the Pulpit Rock, a natural rock formation located near the mouth of Echo Canyon, Echo City, Utah, ca.1900-1930. The top of the rock formation is flat. The main portion of the rock is supported by a narrower piece below it. At right is an overhanging cliff. Scrub grass sparsely covers the hilly area near the cliff and the rock. A house (or barn?) is visible in the distance. "The Pulpit, at the mouth of Echo Canyon, photographed by William Jackson, 1870. This unique formation was later dynamited to make way for the railroad and highway." -- unknown author. Picture file card reads: "Pulpit and Henning Rock. Mouth of Echo Canyon, N.P.R.R."

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Title View of the Pulpit Rock, a natural rock formation located near the mouth of Echo Canyon, Echo City, Utah, ca.1900-1930

Subject Natural features -- Rock formations (file heading), natural rock formations (adlf), Rocks (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place canyons: Echo Canyon (geographic subject), Echo (city or populated place), USA (countries), Utah (states)

Temporal Subject 1900/1930

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 1900/1930

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-m17548

Identifier 5964 (accession number), CHS-5964 (call number), CHS-5964 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17540 (legacy record id), chs-m17548 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14308 (legacy record id), 1-80-40 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17540

Unique identifier UC142732

Legacy Identifier CHS-5964.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.1 in × 14.3 in at 300dpi
48.6 cm × 36.3 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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