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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Loggers posing by a Washington red cedar, ca.1900
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Loggers posing by a Washington red cedar, ca.1900
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Description
Photograph of loggers posing by a Washington red cedar, ca.1900. The loggers are holding axes and saws and are standing at left and right wearing pants with suspenders. A third man can be seen in the background to the right of the large tree trunk down center. Divisional lines are carved into the log to prepare the shingles for extraction. Picture file card reads: "This log cuts 110,000 shingles".
Asset Metadata
Title
Loggers posing by a Washington red cedar, ca.1900
Subject
Forests and forestry
(lcsh),
Industry -- Lumbering
(file heading),
Lumber
(lcsh),
Wood products
(lcsh),
woods
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1900
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
1900
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-m12175
Identifier
6220 (
accession number
), CHS-6220 (
call number
), CHS-6220 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-11665 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12175 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12328 (
legacy record id
), 1-108-61 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
11665
Unique identifier
UC129976
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6220.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
14.9 in × 19.2 in at 300dpi
38.0 cm × 48.8 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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