Ducks swimming in the Salton Sea at Date Palm Beach, ca.1920

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Photograph of ducks swimming in the Salton Sea at Date Palm Beach, ca.1920. Seven ducks can be seen at center, swimming in the water, while seven more are visible on the flat and barren shore in the background. Behind them, a second canal of water can be seen.

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Title Ducks swimming in the Salton Sea at Date Palm Beach, ca.1920

Subject Lakes (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 1920

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

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-m8126

Identifier 8419 (accession number), CHS-8419 (call number), CHS-8419 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8451 (legacy record id), chs-m8126 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8257 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8451

Unique identifier UC126233

Legacy Identifier CHS-8419.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 21.0 in × 16.4 in at 300dpi
53.5 cm × 41.7 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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