California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

External view of shack at Arrowhead Hot Springs, San Bernardino, ca.1876

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External view of shack at Arrowhead Hot Springs, San Bernardino, ca.1876

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Photograph of an external view of shack at Arrowhead Hot Springs, San Bernardino, ca.1876. A post-and-rail fence made from scrap wood and branches surrounds a small clearing at the base of a hill in which a long shack with three doors and one window stands to the immediate right of a smaller shack that has clapboard siding. Further away to the left, what appears to be an outhouse can be seen. A man stands in the leftmost doorway of the longer shack. Hilly terrain and mountains fill the background, while desert brush and a rock to the right fill the foreground. A horse can be seen grazing behind the enclosure to the right.; "I had a talk with John Brown Jr., who told me that David N. Smith erected the first buildings at Arrowhead Springs - the ones shown in your print - about 1864. Mr. Brown, offhand, could not fix the date more definitely. He said Smith was keeper of the upper gate on the Cajon Pass toll road from 1861 until he moved to Arrowhead. Smith gave hydropathie treatment while living in the toll road, but realized that the Spring possessed certain advantages. The building you show stood close to the cienega that supplies the hot mud used in treatment at the arrowhead." -- G.W. Beattie 1876.

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Title External view of shack at Arrowhead Hot Springs, San Bernardino, ca.1876

Subject buildings (adlf), Hot springs (lcsh), San Bernardino County -- Lake and Mount Arrowhead (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Bernardino (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1871/1881

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (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 1871/1881

Creator Godfry (photographer)

Contributor Hellman, Lornel (donor)

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-m3482

Identifier 7055 (accession number), CHS-7055 (call number), CHS-7055 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4431 (legacy record id), chs-m3482 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3556 (legacy record id), 1-45-20 (microfiche number), K (microfilm reel number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4431

Unique identifier UC119021

Legacy Identifier CHS-7055.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 33.6 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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