California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Family standing beside the stagecoach station on the Butterfield line, ca.1916

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Family standing beside the stagecoach station on the Butterfield line, ca.1916

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Photograph of a family of 4 (woman, 2 men, child) standing beside the adobe(?) wall of the stage station on the Butterfield Line at McPherson(?) near the Gila River, 48-49 miles east of Yuma, Arizona, ca.1916. The station was built in 1856. One of the men leans on a rifle. A window is visible behind the group. Three poles hold up a thatched canopy offering protection from the elements at right.

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Title Family standing beside the stagecoach station on the Butterfield line, ca.1916

Subject Adobe brick (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Butterfield Stage (subject), Coaching (lcsh), Horses (lcsh), Terminals (Transportation) (lcsh), Transportation -- Draft -- Stage coaches -- Stations (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Arizona (states), McPherson (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1916

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 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 1916

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-m11834

Identifier 3023 (accession number), CHS-3023 (call number), CHS-3023 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11244 (legacy record id), chs-m11834 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-11986 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-11986 (legacy record id), 1-155- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11244

Unique identifier UC128571

Legacy Identifier CHS-3023.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.4 in × 14.2 in at 300dpi
46.9 cm × 36.2 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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