California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Picking peaches, San Fernando Valley, [s.d.]

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Picking peaches, San Fernando Valley, [s.d.]

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Photograph of a man picking peaches, in the San Fernando Valley, [s.d.]. A man in a hat, holding a large bucket in his left hand, climbs a ladder to pick fruit from a tree. At the base of the ladder, a few boxes filled with peaches sit, and in the background, several other trees can be seen.

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Title Picking peaches, San Fernando Valley, [s.d.]

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Subject agricultural sites (adlf), Agriculture (lcsh), Agriculture -- Crops -- Peaches (file heading), Peach (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)

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-m19949

Identifier 35690 (accession number), CHS-35690 (call number), CHS-35690 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19766 (legacy record id), chs-m19949 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19766

Unique identifier UC122237

Legacy Identifier CHS-35690.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.7 in × 18.8 in at 300dpi
34.8 cm × 47.7 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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