Cowboys tending to several herds of cattle, ca.1900

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Photograph of cowboys tending to several herds of cattle, ca.1900. A single cowboy mounted on his horse stands in the right foreground of the photo, while a second does the same in the centerground to the left, flanked to either side between two groups of cattle. More cattle are visible in the flatland in the distance. A rock formation can be seen coming in from outside the frame in the left foreground. Picture file card reads "Range horses.".

Asset Metadata

Title Cowboys tending to several herds of cattle, ca.1900

Subject Agriculture -- Ranching -- Cowboys (file heading), Cattle (lcsh), Cowboys (lcsh), Horses (lcsh), Plains (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1895/1905

Type images

Format 1 microfilm frame : negative, b&w ; 35 mm.; 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), microfilms (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 1895/1905

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-m9632

Identifier 6943 (accession number), CHS-6943 (call number), CHS-6943 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9881 (legacy record id), chs-m9632 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-9771 (legacy record id), 1-156- (microfiche number), J (microfilm reel number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9881

Unique identifier UC139794

Legacy Identifier CHS-6943.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 14.4 in at 300dpi
47.7 cm × 36.6 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

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