Native Hawaiian boys diving for coins beside the steamship "Australia", 1907

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Photograph of native Hawaiian boys diving for coins beside the steamship "Australia", 1907. View of starboard side of a large ship with passengers looking down into water where seven swimmers are treading water. A row of small circular windows can be seen below the top deck. A large railing across the edge of the upper and lower decks is visible. Several passengers on both decks lean against the railing to look into the water below. A large central mast can be seen at center near a smokestack at left.

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Title Native Hawaiian boys diving for coins beside the steamship "Australia", 1907

Subject Diving (lcsh), Harbors (adlf), Hawaii (file heading), Steamboats (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Hawaii (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1907

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1907

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-m2656

Identifier 403 (accession number), CHS-403 (call number), CHS-403 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3564 (legacy record id), chs-m2656 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14026 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3564

Unique identifier UC120780

Legacy Identifier CHS-403.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.0 in at 300dpi
43.2 cm × 33.1 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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