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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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"Coolie" laborers smoking and resting on a rooftop in China, ca.1900
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"Coolie" laborers smoking and resting on a rooftop in China, ca.1900
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Description
Photograph of "Coolie" laborers smoking and resting on a rooftop in China, ca.1900. Six men are shown in pants and tunics, smoking from long pipes. Three at left are seated on a slab of eroding brick while a fourth stands in front of them. Two others stand to the right. The roofs of other buildings can be seen in the distance. "Coolie" was the term used by a foreign shipping agency to denote a native laborer.
Asset Metadata
Title
"Coolie" laborers smoking and resting on a rooftop in China, ca.1900
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Date Created
1900
Subject
buildings
(adlf),
China
(file heading),
Chinese
(lcsh),
Men
(lcsh),
Unskilled laborers
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
China
(countries)
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)
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-m30558
Identifier
12241 (
accession number
), CHS-12241 (
call number
), unid-107 (
call number
), CHS-12241 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-24786 (
legacy record id
), chs-m30558 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14111 (
legacy record id
), 1-222- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
), 107 (
unidentified no.
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
24786
Unique identifier
UC131925
Legacy Identifier
CHS-12241.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.0 in × 16.5 in at 300dpi
45.9 cm × 42.1 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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