California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of houses along Date Palm Beach from the Salton Sea, ca.1903

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View of houses along Date Palm Beach from the Salton Sea, ca.1903

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Photograph of a view of houses along Date Palm Beach from the Salton Sea, ca.1903. A long dock and homes can be seen on land in the center distance, the terrain dappled by trees. In the foreground, the water of the Salton Sea quivers, while in the background, mountains are visible.

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Title View of houses along Date Palm Beach from the Salton Sea, ca.1903

Subject housing areas (adlf), Riverside County -- Salton Sea (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Palm Springs (city or populated place), Riverside (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1903

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 1903

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-m8132

Identifier 8423 (accession number), CHS-8423 (call number), CHS-8423 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8457 (legacy record id), chs-m8132 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8263 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8457

Unique identifier UC126236

Legacy Identifier CHS-8423.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.8 in × 16.3 in at 300dpi
52.8 cm × 41.5 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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