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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Lake George in the high Sierras, Los Angeles' water supply, ca.1930
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Lake George in the high Sierras, Los Angeles' water supply, ca.1930
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Photograph of Lake George in the high Sierras, Los Angeles' water supply, ca.1930. The lake is calm and visible behind some scant trees in the foreground. Snow-dappled mountains, with a particularly trapezoidal peak at right, are visible in the distance.
Asset Metadata
Title
Lake George in the high Sierras, Los Angeles' water supply, ca.1930
Subject
Engineering -- Aqueducts #2 -- Rivers, lakes, reservoirs
(file heading),
Lakes
(lcsh),
Lakes
(adlf),
Water-supply
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1930
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
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
1930
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-m10087
Identifier
6632 (
accession number
), CHS-6632 (
call number
), CHS-6632 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-10323 (
legacy record id
), chs-m10087 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-10227 (
legacy record id
), 1-110-32 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
10323
Unique identifier
UC140289
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6632.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.5 in × 14.6 in at 300dpi
47.1 cm × 37.3 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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