California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Captain Luis Torres of the Coahuilla Indians standing beside a mesquite granary at Torres, east of Palm Springs, ca.1903

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Captain Luis Torres of the Coahuilla Indians standing beside a mesquite granary at Torres, east of Palm Springs, ca.1903

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Photograph of Captain Luis Torres of the Coahuilla Indians standing beside a mesquite granary at Torres, east of Palm Springs, ca.1903. He is wearing bib overalls, a long-sleeve shirt and a hat. His left hand rests on the cylindrical woven granary which sits atop a rough wooden platform. Scrub brush and low trees are visible behind him.

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Title Captain Luis Torres of the Coahuilla Indians standing beside a mesquite granary at Torres, east of Palm Springs, ca.1903

Subject Cahuilla Indians (subject), Cahuilla Indians (lcsh), Coahuilla, Mission Indians -- Palm Springs (subject), Indians (subject), Indians -- Mission -- Cahuilla (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), Mission Indians (subject), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), Water-supply (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Palm Springs (city or populated place), Riverside (counties), Torres (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1903

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm., 21 x 26 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 1903

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-m10225

Identifier 2301 (accession number), CHS-2301 (call number), CHS-2301 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11428 (legacy record id), chs-m10225 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13920 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11428

Unique identifier UC128655

Legacy Identifier CHS-2301.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.9 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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