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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Desert Station of Southern Pacific Railroad at Palmdale showing a train in station, ca.1895
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Desert Station of Southern Pacific Railroad at Palmdale showing a train in station, ca.1895

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Photograph of the Desert Station of Southern Pacific Railroad at Palmdale showing a train in station, ca.1895. The station is about two-stories tall. Utility lines run down the left side of the track. A horse and buggy are nearby. Mountains are visible in the distance. 
Asset Metadata
Title Desert Station of Southern Pacific Railroad at Palmdale showing a train in station, ca.1895 
Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer) 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1895 
Subject Horses  (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Antelope Valley  (file heading), railroad features  (adlf), Railroads -- Stations  (lcsh), Southern Pacific Railroad  (corporate name), Wagons  (lcsh) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Palmdale (city or populated place), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1895 
Type images
Format 2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 11 x 13 cm. (aacr2), 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) 
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-m5328 
Identifier 6143 (accession number), CHS-6143 (call number), CHS-6143 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25857 (legacy record id), chs-m5328 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5441 (legacy record id), 1-119-21 (microfiche number), 1-158- (microfiche number), USC (project) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 25857 
Unique identifier UC129334 
Legacy Identifier CHS-6143.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.8 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 
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