California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Irrigation ditch in the Imperial Valley (or Covina?), ca.1910-1920

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Irrigation ditch in the Imperial Valley (or Covina?), ca.1910-1920

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Photograph of an irrigation ditch in the Imperial Valley (or Covina?), ca.1910-1920. The narrow sluice can be seen bisecting the image through the center foreground into the distance. Three to four years of growth of closely planted Eucalyptus and Cypress trees line both sides of the ditch as a wind break.

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Title Irrigation ditch in the Imperial Valley (or Covina?), ca.1910-1920

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1910/1920

Subject Botany -- Trees -- Assorted (Identified) (file heading), Canals (adlf), Engineering -- Aqueducts #4 -- Irrigation ditches, wells (file heading), Irrigation (lcsh), Trees (lcsh), Water-supply (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1910/1920

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 22 x 17 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-m10094

Identifier 1682 (accession number), CHS-1682 (call number), CHS-1682 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10330 (legacy record id), chs-m10094 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10234 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14234 (legacy record id), 1-110-12 (microfiche number), 1-82-45 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10330

Unique identifier UC140321

Legacy Identifier CHS-1682.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.2 in × 17.3 in at 300dpi
33.6 cm × 44.0 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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