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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Four people standing near a salt pool in Death Valley, ca.1900-1950
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Four people standing near a salt pool in Death Valley, ca.1900-1950
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Description
Photograph of four people standing near a salt pool in Death Valley, ca.1900-1950. Three men are standing at center near the rocky edge of a wide salt pool. A fourth man is seated on a rock at right. The pool is in the foreground at left and is roughly circular in shape. The liquid in the pool is a frothy light color. The desert behind the men is rough and rocky, and there is a steep mountain range running across the image in the distance.
Asset Metadata
Title
Four people standing near a salt pool in Death Valley, ca.1900-1950
Subject
canyons
(lcsh),
Deserts
(lcsh),
Deserts
(adlf),
Mountains
(lcsh),
Natural features -- Parks -- Death Valley
(file heading),
Parks
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
deserts: Death Valley
(geographic subject),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1900/1950
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
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
1900/1950
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
(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.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20236
Identifier
14225 (
accession number
), CHS-14225 (
call number
), CHS-14225 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-21034 (
legacy record id
), chs-m20236 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14249 (
legacy record id
), 1-27- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
21034
Unique identifier
UC134018
Legacy Identifier
CHS-14225.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.3 in × 16.5 in at 300dpi
51.7 cm × 41.9 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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