Harvesting potatoes, [s.d.]

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Photograph of workers harvesting potatoes, [s.d.]. Three men in lightly-colored shirts, work pants and hats collect potatoes from the soil at center and place them in wooden buckets at their sides. One man packs the potatoes into sacks at right. A stack of wooden boxes sits at right while rows of plants sit behind them in the right background. More rows of crops sit in the left background. A horse-drawn carriage can be seen standing in front of more crops that lie at center background. Electrical poles line street in the left distance while large buildings stand in the right distance.

Asset Metadata

Title Harvesting potatoes, [s.d.]

Subject agricultural sites (adlf), Agriculture (lcsh), Agriculture -- Crops -- Potatoes (file heading), Potato (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 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)

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-m19957

Identifier 36817 (accession number), CHS-36817 (call number), CHS-36817 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19772 (legacy record id), chs-m19957 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19772

Unique identifier UC122250

Legacy Identifier CHS-36817.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
47.7 cm × 34.6 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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