California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Train passing through a railroad snow shed and onto a tressel in the mountains at Cisco, ca.1910

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Train passing through a railroad snow shed and onto a tressel in the mountains at Cisco, ca.1910

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Photograph of a train passing through a railroad snow shed and onto a tressel in the mountains at Cisco, California, ca.1910. Utility poles run adjacent to the tracks. The dry rocky mountain slope is sparsely dotted with boulders, shrubs and trees.

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Title Train passing through a railroad snow shed and onto a tressel in the mountains at Cisco, ca.1910

Subject Central Pacific Railroad (subject), Mountains (lcsh), railroad features (adlf), Railroads (lcsh), Snow (lcsh), Transportation -- Railroads -- Northern California (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Cisco (city or populated place), Placer (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1910

Type images

Format 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 11 x 13 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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 1910

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12114

Identifier 5030 (accession number), CHS-5030 (call number), CHS-5030 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11606 (legacy record id), chs-m12114 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12267 (legacy record id), 1-119-17 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11606

Unique identifier UC129984

Legacy Identifier CHS-5030.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.6 in × 14.8 in at 300dpi
47.2 cm × 37.7 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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