Portrait of an outfit of cowboys at their camp, 1898

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Photographic portrait of an outfit of cowboys at their camp, 1898. Nine cowboys pose in a line on horseback while a tenth sits behind them on the chuck wagon to the right. Two pup tents have been pitched at center, behind them. A group of unsaddled horses grazes together to the left, while a lone horse grazes to the right. A mesa can be seen in the background.

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Title Portrait of an outfit of cowboys at their camp, 1898

Subject Agriculture -- Ranching -- Cowboys (file heading), camps (adlf), Cowboys (lcsh), Ranches (lcsh), Tents (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1898

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 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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9524

Identifier 6939 (accession number), CHS-6939 (call number), CHS-6939 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9774 (legacy record id), chs-m9524 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-9661 (legacy record id), 1-156- (microfiche number), J (microfilm reel number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9774

Unique identifier UC139811

Legacy Identifier CHS-6939.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 13.9 in at 300dpi
47.8 cm × 35.4 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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