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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Two men standing near a wooden shed in the midst of dozens of oil derricks in a Los Angeles oil field
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Two men standing near a wooden shed in the midst of dozens of oil derricks in a Los Angeles oil field
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Description
Photograph of 2 men standing near a wooden shed in the midst of dozens of oil derricks in a Los Angeles oil field, Court Street and Toluca Street, 1904. A large wooden vat is at left. These wells have been producing for over 40 years when this image was taken (1904).
Asset Metadata
Title
Two men standing near a wooden shed in the midst of dozens of oil derricks in a Los Angeles oil field
Subject
industrial sites
(adlf),
oil fields
(lcsh),
Petroleum industry and trade
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Court Street & Toluca Street
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1904
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, glass photonegative, b&w ; 4 x 5 cm., 17 x 22 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
negatives (photographic)
(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
1904
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m14974
Identifier
1276 (
accession number
), CHS-1276 (
call number
), CHS-1276 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-15608 (
legacy record id
), chs-m14974 (
legacy record id
), 1-115-7 (
microfiche number
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
15608
Unique identifier
UC143131
Legacy Identifier
CHS-1276.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.2 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
43.7 cm × 33.6 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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