California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Pumpkin field in the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles, October 20, 1930

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Pumpkin field in the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles, October 20, 1930

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Photograph of a pumpkin field in the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles, October 20, 1930. A wide field strewn with plump pumpkins stretches out at center. In the distance, a thick forest with tall trees is visible.

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Title Pumpkin field in the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles, October 20, 1930

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1930-10-20

Subject agricultural sites (adlf), Agriculture (lcsh), Agriculture -- Crops -- Pumpkins (file heading), Pumpkin (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930-10-20

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 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)

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19974

Identifier 35697 (accession number), CHS-35697 (call number), CHS-35697 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19791 (legacy record id), chs-m19974 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19791

Unique identifier UC122273

Legacy Identifier CHS-35697.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
47.9 cm × 33.9 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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