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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Devil's Playground showing a barrel cactus, Palm Springs, 1933
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View of Devil's Playground showing a barrel cactus, Palm Springs, 1933
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Description
Photograph of a view of Devil's Playground showing a barrel cactus, Palm Springs, 1933. The large cactus is covered with prickly thorns. A variety of flower bushes and shrubs cover the landscape. Snowcapped mountains are visible in the background.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of Devil's Playground showing a barrel cactus, Palm Springs, 1933
Subject
Botany -- Cacti
(file heading),
desert
(adlf),
Riverside County -- General -- Desert views
(file heading),
Views
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Palm Springs
(city or populated place),
Riverside
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1933
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
(aacr2),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat),
transparencies
(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
1933
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-m8104
Identifier
8587 (
accession number
), CHS-8587 (
call number
), CHS-8587 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-8429 (
legacy record id
), chs-m8104 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14203 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-8235 (
legacy record id
), 1-77-75 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
8429
Unique identifier
UC126325
Legacy Identifier
CHS-8587.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
12.6 in × 15.7 in at 300dpi
32.1 cm × 40.0 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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