California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Pima dam on Gila River, ca.1900

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Pima dam on Gila River, ca.1900

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Photograph of the Pima dam on the Gila River, ca.1900. A group of Indians can be seen from the side at left sitting on a bank of the river. The shallow river can be seen at right, while desert shrubs can be seen on the far bank. Mountains are visible in the distance at left.

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Title Pima dam on Gila River, ca.1900

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Contributor Southwest Native American Photograph Collection (provenance)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1900

Subject Gila River (N.M. and Ariz.) (lcsh), Indians -- Pima (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), Pima Indians (lcsh), rivers (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Arizona (states), tribal areas: Gila River Indian Reservation (Ariz.) (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 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)

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-m21214

Identifier 46727 (accession number), CHS-46727 (call number), CHS-46727 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-20226 (legacy record id), chs-m21214 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13956 (legacy record id), USC (project), 3692 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 20226

Unique identifier UC122504

Legacy Identifier CHS-46727.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 23.3 in × 17.3 in at 300dpi
59.3 cm × 44.1 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

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