California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Load of sugar beets being dumped into a Southern Pacific railroad car in Compton, 1910

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Load of sugar beets being dumped into a Southern Pacific railroad car in Compton, 1910

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Photograph of a load of sugar beets being dumped into a Southern Pacific railroad car in Compton, 1910. Beets are shown at center being dropped from what appears to be a specially-designed horse-drawn cart. The beets fall over the tipping side of the cart, which is positioned on a trestle above the rail car, down a slide to the car below. The number on the side of the slatted-wood freight car is "S.P. 79123".

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Title Load of sugar beets being dumped into a Southern Pacific railroad car in Compton, 1910

Contributor Gillingham, Robert C. (donor)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1910

Subject Agriculture (lcsh), Beet sugar industry (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Compton (file heading), railroad features (adlf), Railroads -- Cars (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Compton (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1910

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 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-m5675

Identifier 12736 (accession number), CHS-12736 (call number), CHS-12736 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5704 (legacy record id), chs-m5675 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-5794 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5704

Unique identifier UC127596

Legacy Identifier CHS-12736.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.5 in × 16.6 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 42.2 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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