Plank roads and iron telephone poles stretching across the sand dunes between the Colorado River and the Imperial Valley, ca.1920

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Photograph of plank roads and iron telephone poles stretching across the sand dunes between the Colorado River and the Imperial Valley, ca.1920. The road is in disrepair and can be seen from bottom left into the right background. Shrubs can be seen growing in the dunes, while telephone poles line the left side of the road. Two wooden poles can be seen upright in the sand in the center foreground. The road was built from 1914-1915 and used until 1926.

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Title Plank roads and iron telephone poles stretching across the sand dunes between the Colorado River and the Imperial Valley, ca.1920

Subject Deserts (lcsh), dunes (adlf), Imperial County -- General (file heading), Roads (lcsh), Telephone (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Imperial (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1920

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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)

Date Created 1920

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

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7048

Identifier 6299 (accession number), CHS-6299 (call number), CHS-6299 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7196 (legacy record id), chs-m7048 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-7163 (legacy record id), 1-194- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7196

Unique identifier UC123086

Legacy Identifier CHS-6299.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.1 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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