Two men taking fish from traps, California, ca.1910

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Photograph of two men taking fish from traps, California, ca.1910. One man (at left) holds a large fish net while another man (kneeling at right) places a large fish into it. The men, wearing knee-high galoshes, are standing on top of a wooden platform (fish trapping contraption?). A wooden door covering the floor opening of the wooden contraption stands erected. In the background are fields of hay (tall shrubs?), trees and mountains.

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Title Two men taking fish from traps, California, ca.1910

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1910

Subject Fisheries (adlf), Fishing (lcsh), Industry -- Fishing (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1910

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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)

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-m11949

Identifier 5341 (accession number), CHS-5341 (call number), CHS-5341 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11343 (legacy record id), chs-m11949 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12101 (legacy record id), 1-107-31 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11343

Unique identifier UC129358

Legacy Identifier CHS-5341.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.3 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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