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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Old water wheel on the Zanja Madre on South Alameda Street near Washington Boulevard, ca.1900
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Old water wheel on the Zanja Madre on South Alameda Street near Washington Boulevard, ca.1900
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Description
Photograph of an old water wheel on the Zanja Madre on South Alameda Street near Washington Boulevard, ca.1900. The wooden water wheel is at center and has multiple paddles on the end of its long wooden spokes. Behind the wheel are two very large wooden barrels on top of wooden supports. There is a low picket fence running in front of the water wheel, and a line of utility poles in front of the fence. The wheel is also surrounded by several trees and bushes.
Asset Metadata
Title
Old water wheel on the Zanja Madre on South Alameda Street near Washington Boulevard, ca.1900
Subject
Engineering -- Aqueducts #5 -- Zanjas
(file heading),
hydrographic structures
(adlf),
Irrigation
(lcsh),
Water-supply
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
South Alameda Street near Washington Boulevard
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1900
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 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
1900
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.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10257
Identifier
11430 (
accession number
), CHS-11430 (
call number
), CHS-11430 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-11455 (
legacy record id
), chs-m10257 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-10402 (
legacy record id
), 1-110-38 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
11455
Unique identifier
UC128401
Legacy Identifier
CHS-11430.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.4 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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