California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

People crowded at a portion of the levee which held back the Colorado River at the "Lower Heading," near Yuma, [s.d.]

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People crowded at a portion of the levee which held back the Colorado River at the "Lower Heading," near Yuma, [s.d.]

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Photograph of people crowded at a portion of the levee which held back the Colorado River at the "Lower Heading," near Yuma, [s.d.]. Finely-dressed people stand along the set of tracks that lie at the top of the levee on the right while others crowd the small wooden structure towards center. They stand in a clear field which extends to the left with short, dark trees lining the back edge into the background. Dark, thin bushes lie across the front edge of the field where they hang over the shimmering river in the foreground on the left. The remains of the "Rockwood Gate" are in the water.

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Title People crowded at a portion of the levee which held back the Colorado River at the "Lower Heading," near Yuma, [s.d.]

Subject Natural features -- Rivers -- Colorado River (file heading), rivers (lcsh), rivers (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Arizona (states), rivers: Colorado River (geographic subject), USA (countries), Yuma (city or populated place)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 12 x 17 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)

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-m20997

Identifier 46511 (accession number), CHS-46511 (call number), CHS-46511 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25116 (legacy record id), chs-m20997 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14306 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25116

Unique identifier UC131733

Legacy Identifier CHS-46511.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.9 in × 12.6 in at 300dpi
45.4 cm × 32.2 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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