California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

"A desert tragedy", the skeletal remains of a horse and buggy in the desert, ca.1900

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"A desert tragedy", the skeletal remains of a horse and buggy in the desert, ca.1900

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Photograph of "a desert tragedy", the skeletal the remains of a horse and buggy in the desert, ca.1900. The remains are surrounded by a low grassy plain that extends for many miles. All that remain are part of the wooden frame of the wagon with no wheels, and a white skeleton of a horse laying where it was once hitched to the wagon.

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Title "A desert tragedy", the skeletal remains of a horse and buggy in the desert, ca.1900

Subject Deserts (lcsh), Deserts (adlf), Natural features -- Deserts (file heading), Riverside County -- General (file heading), Skeleton (lcsh), Transportation -- Draft -- General (file heading), Wagons (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm., 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11776

Identifier 4670 (accession number), CHS-4670 (call number), CHS-4670 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11187 (legacy record id), chs-m11776 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-11927 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14225 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8170 (legacy record id), 1-156- (microfiche number), 1-81-51 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11187

Unique identifier UC128470

Legacy Identifier CHS-4670.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.0 in × 12.9 in at 300dpi
40.6 cm × 32.8 cm at 300dpi

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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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