California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Santa Fe Railroad tracks cutting through El Cajon Pass, San Bernardino, ca.1890

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Santa Fe Railroad tracks cutting through El Cajon Pass, San Bernardino, ca.1890

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Photograph of Santa Fe Railroad tracks cutting through El Cajon Pass, San Bernardino, ca.1890. A line of track runs towards the distance and bends right around a rock face at center. Trusses support the left rock face as well as support a number of barrels, which can be seen set along their boards. Some rubble can be seen in the lower left corner of the image.

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Title Santa Fe Railroad tracks cutting through El Cajon Pass, San Bernardino, ca.1890

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), passes: El Cajon Pass (geographic subject), San Bernardino (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1890

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegative, transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm., 21 x 26 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 1890

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-m12162

Identifier 7695 (accession number), CHS-7695 (call number), CHS-7695 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11652 (legacy record id), chs-m12162 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12315 (legacy record id), 1-119-49 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11652

Unique identifier UC130060

Legacy Identifier CHS-7695.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.5 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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