California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

A man sitting on a wooden chair beneath an avocado (or alligator pear) tree, California, [s.d.]

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A man sitting on a wooden chair beneath an avocado (or alligator pear) tree, California, [s.d.]

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Photograph of a man sitting on a wooden chair beneath an avocado (or alligator pear) tree, California, [s.d.]. The avocado tree (casingroa edulis, or in Spanish zapote blaucu?) towers above the man. A mesh wire fence is visible behind thick bushes at left. Many different types of trees and bushes surround the area. A wooden contraption and a bucket lay on the lawn next to the man.

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Title A man sitting on a wooden chair beneath an avocado (or alligator pear) tree, California, [s.d.]

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Subject Agriculture -- Crops -- Avocados (file heading), Avocado (lcsh), Botany (lcsh), Parks (adlf), Trees (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.; 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), 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)

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-m10045

Identifier 5201 (accession number), CHS-5201 (call number), CHS-5201 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10282 (legacy record id), chs-m10045 (legacy record id), 1-83-107 (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10282

Unique identifier UC140285

Legacy Identifier CHS-5201.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.8 in × 18.5 in at 300dpi
37.7 cm × 47.0 cm at 300dpi

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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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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