"The Desert Queen" sailing on the Mojave Desert, 1905

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Photograph of the "Desert Queen" sailing on Rosamond Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert, 1905. The sailing vehicle has four wheels, sails (spinnaker & mainsail) and a flag. Five passengers (three women, two men) sit on the flat skeletal platform while one man, smoking a pipe, operates the steering wheel. The vessel is headed to the left. The Desert Queen was build and used by miners to cross three miles of dry lake.

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Title "The Desert Queen" sailing on the Mojave Desert, 1905

Subject Deserts (adlf), Deserts (lcsh), Flags (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Antelope Valley (file heading), Vehicles (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1905

Type images

Format 3 photograph : photonegatives, glass photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm., 20 x 25 cm., 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), negatives (photographic) (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 1905

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5363

Identifier 2215 (accession number), CHS-2215 (call number), CHS-2215 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25889 (legacy record id), chs-m5363 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5476 (legacy record id), 1-121-10 (microfiche number), 1-81-58 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25889

Unique identifier UC128997

Legacy Identifier CHS-2215.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.8 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
45.2 cm × 35.1 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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