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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of the Salton Sea at sunset, Riverside County, southern California, ca.1920-1930
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View of the Salton Sea at sunset, Riverside County, southern California, ca.1920-1930
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Photograph of a view of the Salton Sea at sunset, Riverside County, southern California, ca.1920-1930. Scrub grass cover the sandy area in the foreground. Sunlight is reflected off water in the calm sea. Mountains are visible in the distance. Clouds loom overhead.; "The Salton Sea was formed between 1905 and 1907 when the Colorado River burst through poorly built irrigation controls south of Yuma, Arizona. Almost the entire flow of the river filled the Salton Basin for more than a year, inundating communities, farms and the main line of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Continued filling of the Salton Sink was finally stopped in 1907, when a line of protective levees was built by boxcars dumping boulders into the breach from Southern Pacific tracks. By then, this inland lake was about 40 miles long and 13 miles wide, covering an area of about 400 square miles. The Salton Sea is currently 35 miles by 15 miles and can be as long as 40 miles by almost 20 miles in particularly wet years. It has an average depth of 29.9 feet and, at its deepest, is 51 feet. It contains 7.3 million acre feet of water and evaporates 1.3 million acre feet each year. There is a five-mile-long trench on the south end of the Sea that is 51 feet deep. The Sea is currently 228 feet below sea level. Interestingly, the bed of the Salton Sea is only five feet higher than the lowest spot in Death Valley." -- unknown author.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of the Salton Sea at sunset, Riverside County, southern California, ca.1920-1930
Subject
Lakes
(lcsh),
Natural features -- Lakes -- Salton Sea
(file heading),
Riverside County -- Salton Sea
(file heading),
seas
(adlf),
Views
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
lakes: Salton Sea
(geographic subject),
Riverside
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1920/1930
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)
Date Created
1920/1930
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.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8124
Identifier
5946 (
accession number
), CHS-5946 (
call number
), CHS-5946 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-8449 (
legacy record id
), chs-m8124 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14232 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-8255 (
legacy record id
), 1-61- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
8449
Unique identifier
UC126264
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5946.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.9 in × 15.2 in at 300dpi
50.6 cm × 38.6 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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