California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

"Temple of the Sun" cliffs in Red Rock Canyon, [s.d.]

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"Temple of the Sun" cliffs in Red Rock Canyon, [s.d.]

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Photograph of the "Temple of the Sun" cliffs in Red Rock Canyon, [s.d.]. Short, dark bushes lie scattered across the dusty field in the foreground with the tall canyon across the far edge. The surface of the rock wall reveals lines indicating the layers of rock which reach across the width of the canyon. Many of the cliffs above form jagged peaks with what look like thick columns of detached rock standing in rows in front of them. A taller portion of rock stands above the cliffs on the right with similar detached columns along its walls.

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Title "Temple of the Sun" cliffs in Red Rock Canyon, [s.d.]

Subject Natural features -- Rock formations (file heading), natural rock formations (adlf), Rocks (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 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 Comstock, Dr. J.A. (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-m21015

Identifier 46524 (accession number), CHS-46524 (call number), CHS-46524 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-20032 (legacy record id), chs-m21015 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14308 (legacy record id), 84-1-2230 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 20032

Unique identifier UC122478

Legacy Identifier CHS-46524.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.2 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
46.2 cm × 35.2 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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