California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

World War I United States cemetery at Flanders Field, 1919

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World War I United States cemetery at Flanders Field, 1919

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Photograph of Flanders Field, Belgium -- United States World War I cemetery -- in 1919, with approximately 30,000 graves in the poppy field. An American flag flies in the distance. Leafy branches from a tree are in the foreground.

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Title World War I United States cemetery at Flanders Field, 1919

Subject Cemeteries (lcsh), Cemeteries (adlf), Military (lcsh), U.S. History -- World War I -- American Expeditionary Force (file heading), War (lcsh), World War, 1914-1918 (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Belgium (countries)

Temporal Subject 1919

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photoprints, b&w ; 13 x 17 cm., 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), 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 1919

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12822

Identifier 332 (accession number), CHS-332 (call number), CHS-332 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12275 (legacy record id), chs-m12822 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12974 (legacy record id), 1-233- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12275

Unique identifier UC132292

Legacy Identifier CHS-332.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.3 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
46.5 cm × 34.4 cm at 300dpi

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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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