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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Plowing and seeding 5,000 acres of wheat
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Plowing and seeding 5,000 acres of wheat
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Description
Photograph of a long row of horse-drawn wagons and men on horseback plowing and seeding 5,000 acres of wheat on the southeasterly portion of the Lankershim Ranch in the San Fernando Valley. Here the outfit is stopping for noon lunch in the fields. One hundred horses were used in this field for plowing. Five tall trees are visible in the distance. A mountain range rises in the distance.
Asset Metadata
Title
Plowing and seeding 5,000 acres of wheat
Subject
Agricultural machinery
(lcsh),
agricultural sites
(adlf),
Agriculture
(lcsh),
Agriculture -- Ranching -- General
(file heading),
Grasses
(lcsh),
Lankershim Ranch
(subject),
Wheat
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Lankershim
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1898/1900
Type
images
Format
4 photographs : glass photonegative, transparency, photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 21 cm., 20 x 25 cm., 20 x 25 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat),
transparencies
(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
1898/1900
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-m9483
Identifier
2502 (
accession number
), CHS-2502 (
call number
), CHS-2502 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-9735 (
legacy record id
), chs-m9483 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-9620 (
legacy record id
), 1-117-27 (
microfiche number
), 1-49- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
9735
Unique identifier
UC139962
Legacy Identifier
CHS-2502.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.3 in × 12.9 in at 300dpi
41.5 cm × 32.8 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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