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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Lyon's well in the desert where water was sold, Colorado Desert, ca.1890-1900
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Lyon's well in the desert where water was sold, Colorado Desert, ca.1890-1900
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Description
Photograph of Six men and a woman stand by a small adobe building and a structure which houses 2 large containers of water that was presumably sold to travelers in the Colorado Desert (old Virginia Dale?), ca.1890-1900.
Asset Metadata
Title
Lyon's well in the desert where water was sold, Colorado Desert, ca.1890-1900
Subject
Agriculture -- Irrigation
(file heading),
Deserts
(lcsh),
Deserts
(adlf),
Irrigation
(lcsh),
Lyon's Well
(subject),
Natural features -- Deserts -- General
(file heading),
Water-supply
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1890/1900
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photoprints, b&w ; 8 x 10 in.; 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1890/1900
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.
Access Conditions
Send requests to address or e-mail given
Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9445
Identifier
1623 (
accession number
), CHS-1623 (
call number
), CHS-1623 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-9699 (
legacy record id
), chs-m9445 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14225 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-9582 (
legacy record id
), 1-110- (
microfiche number
), 1-81-10 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
9699
Unique identifier
UC139946
Legacy Identifier
CHS-1623.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.8 in × 12.9 in at 300dpi
42.8 cm × 32.9 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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