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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Solar motor for pumping water near Phoenix Arizona, ca.1903
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Solar motor for pumping water near Phoenix Arizona, ca.1903
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Description
Photograph of a solar motor near Phoenix, Arizona, showing detail of boiler where 2000 mirrors focus on sun's rays. It pumps water for irrigation. Gear mechanism in the left foreground rotates the dish-shaped mirror to follow the sun.
Asset Metadata
Title
Solar motor for pumping water near Phoenix Arizona, ca.1903
Subject
industrial sites
(adlf),
Industry -- Plants -- Installations -- Exteriors
(file heading),
Irrigation & Water
(subject),
Outside California -- Arizona -- Phoenix
(file heading),
Solar energy
(lcsh),
Water-supply
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Arizona
(states),
Phoenix
(city or populated place),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1903
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)
Date Created
1903
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-m10066
Identifier
1304 (
accession number
), CHS-1304 (
call number
), CHS-1304 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-10302 (
legacy record id
), chs-m10066 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-10206 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14017 (
legacy record id
), 1-110-4 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
10302
Unique identifier
UC140319
Legacy Identifier
CHS-1304.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
13.3 in × 17.2 in at 300dpi
33.8 cm × 43.8 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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