Group of people camping with tents at Coyote Wells, ca.1900

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Photograph of group of people camping with tents at Coyote Wells, ca.1900. In the center background, a group of five campers can be seen standing looking towards the viewer. An iron stove is visible next to the to the right. Farther to the right, two tents are visible. A few horses and donkeys are visible next to a carriage in the left. In the foreground, what seems to be a dirt road covers most of it. Scrub brush and scrub grass are the predominant vegetation in an extended area visible in the far background.; The Superstition Mountains can be seen in the horizon.

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Title Group of people camping with tents at Coyote Wells, ca.1900

Subject Camping (lcsh), camps (adlf), Deserts (lcsh), Donkeys (lcsh), Horses (lcsh), Recreation -- Camping (file heading), Stoves (lcsh), Tents (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Imperial (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm., 16 x 21 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

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11304

Identifier 1983 (accession number), CHS-1983 (call number), CHS-1983 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10726 (legacy record id), chs-m11304 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-11454 (legacy record id), 1-81-15 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10726

Unique identifier UC117985

Legacy Identifier CHS-1983.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.3 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
43.9 cm × 33.8 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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