California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Pima Indian granary, or, a-cos-sin, ca.1900

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Pima Indian granary, or, a-cos-sin, ca.1900

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Photograph of a Pima Indian granary, or, a-cos-sin, ca.1900. The rectangular structure consists of a rough wood beam frame and a thatched roof. Two large ball-shaped baskets for storing grain sit on the ground in the structure. A wood post and rail fence is visible in the background at left. Mountains rise in the distance at right.

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Title Pima Indian granary, or, a-cos-sin, ca.1900

Subject Food -- Storage (lcsh), Indian architecture--North America (lcsh), Indians -- Pima (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), Pima Indians (lcsh), tribal areas (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 4 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm., 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16174

Identifier 3566 (accession number), CHS-3566 (call number), CHS-3566 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-16114 (legacy record id), chs-m16174 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13956 (legacy record id), 1-14- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16114

Unique identifier UC140653

Legacy Identifier CHS-3566.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.9 in × 14.3 in at 300dpi
48.1 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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