View along a still canal, littered with anchored skiffs in China, ca.1900

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Photograph of a view along a still canal, littered with anchored skiffs in China, ca.1900. Narrow, slipper-shaped boats are shown anchored along the left side of the tight channel, with houses visible to the left and trees to the right. In the foreground, a flock of ducks can be seen swimming down the canal.

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Title View along a still canal, littered with anchored skiffs in China, ca.1900

Subject Architecture, Domestic--China (lcsh), Canals (adlf), China (file heading), Skiffs (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place British Empire (countries), political areas: Hong Kong (geographic subject)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 2 photographs : negative, photographic print, b&w ; 9 x 10 cm., 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

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m30600

Identifier 12283 (accession number), CHS-12283 (call number), unid-277 (call number), CHS-12283 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24922 (legacy record id), chs-m30600 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14111 (legacy record id), 1-222- (microfiche number), USC (project), 277 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24922

Unique identifier UC131931

Legacy Identifier CHS-12283.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.6 in × 16.7 in at 300dpi
44.9 cm × 42.5 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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