Artesian well at an old adobe ranch house, South Pasadena, ca.1884-1886

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Photograph of an artesian well at an old adobe panel ranch house, South Pasadena, ca.1884-1886. Water flows up out of a pipe in the center of a round cement cistern two- to three-feet high. The porch and 2nd-story balcony of the dwelling is visible at left. Large old trees dot the yard. A wire mesh and wood post fence runs across at back.

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Title Artesian well at an old adobe ranch house, South Pasadena, ca.1884-1886

Subject Engineering -- Aqueducts #4 -- Irrigation ditches, wells (file heading), Water-supply (lcsh), wells (adlf), wells (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), South Pasadena (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1884

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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 1884

Creator Friend, Herv (photographer)

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10086

Identifier 3856 (accession number), CHS-3856 (call number), CHS-3856 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10322 (legacy record id), chs-m10086 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10226 (legacy record id), 1-110-23 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10322

Unique identifier UC140332

Legacy Identifier CHS-3856.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.9 in × 12.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 32.4 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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