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Painting depicting a sheriff sitting at his desk, aware that a man with a gun is standing behind him, by G.A. Mag(?), California, ca.1898
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Painting depicting a sheriff sitting at his desk, aware that a man with a gun is standing behind him, by G.A. Mag(?), California, ca.1898
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Photograph of a painting depicting a sheriff sitting at his desk, aware that a man with a gun is standing behind him, California, ca.1898. The sheriff, an older man equipped with a sidearm attached to his belt, sits at his desk and pretends to be writing as he notices out of the corner of his eyes a man holding a gun to his back. The sheriff has droopy cheeks and wears a long mustache that droops downward. He has on the typical sheriff uniform adorned with a badge and his boots have spurs. The gunman is younger in appearance and sports a Spanish-style mustache. He is smoking a cigarette in one hand and holding a gun to the sheriff's back with the other. A pair of scissors has been knocked off the table and is falling towards a wastebasket that sits near the table. A spit pot (for chewing tobacco?) sits near the wastebasket. The window in the background has a crack that appears to have been caused by a bullet. The name on the painting, G.A. Mag, has been edited out from the photograph negative. Picture file card reads: "'Out West', 'The discomforted sheriff'".
Asset Metadata
Title
Painting depicting a sheriff sitting at his desk, aware that a man with a gun is standing behind him, by G.A. Mag(?), California, ca.1898
Subject
Agriculture -- Ranching -- Cowboys
(file heading),
Cowboys
(lcsh),
Firearms
(lcsh),
Ranches
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1898
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
(aacr2),
art
(aat),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1898
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-m9533
Identifier
5577 (
accession number
), CHS-5577 (
call number
), CHS-5577 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-9786 (
legacy record id
), chs-m9533 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-9670 (
legacy record id
), 1-156- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
9786
Unique identifier
UC139781
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5577.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
15.0 in × 18.9 in at 300dpi
38.2 cm × 48.1 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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