California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad crossing a trestle in Arizona, ca.1895

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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad crossing a trestle in Arizona, ca.1895

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Photograph of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad crossing a trestle in Arizona, ca.1895. The large steam locomotive can be seen in the foreground at center and is towing several cars behind it. Two men stand on a boxcar close behind the engine of the train. The high trestle stretches for a long distance and is visible in several locations in the background. The hilly landscape is dotted with small trees.; Photoprint reads: "A.P.- P. Ry. -- Arizona -- Now S.P.R.R. [Santa Fe, Prescott, and Phoenix R.R. ca.1892-1896".

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Title Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad crossing a trestle in Arizona, ca.1895

Subject Arizona -- General (file heading), Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company (naf corporate name), railroad features (adlf), Railroads (lcsh), Transportation -- Railroads -- Southern California -- Santa Fe Railroad (file heading), Trestles (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Arizona (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1895

Type images

Format 4 photographs : transparency, photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm., 17 x 22 cm., 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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 1895

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-m12160

Identifier 4595 (accession number), CHS-4595 (call number), CHS-4595 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11650 (legacy record id), chs-m12160 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12313 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14004 (legacy record id), 1-119-11 (microfiche number), 1-155-11 (microfiche number), USC (project), James-63 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11650

Unique identifier UC130090

Legacy Identifier CHS-4595.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.7 in × 12.8 in at 300dpi
42.6 cm × 32.6 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

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