California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Man standing on shore next to a small ferry boat moored along the Colorado River in one of the Mojave canyons, California, 1900-1950

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Man standing on shore next to a small ferry boat moored along the Colorado River in one of the Mojave canyons, California, 1900-1950

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Photograph of a man standing on shore next to a small wooden ferry boat moored along the Colorado River in one of the Mojave canyons, California, 1900-1950. It is a flat boat containing several crates and full sacks. The oars stick up in the oarlocks on both sides. The near shore is dried cracked mud. On the far shore, brush and small trees can be seen. A sandbar(?) is visible in the placid water just off the opposite shore. Rough rocky hills are visible in the background. One of the hills was the site of the killing of a prospector by a Chemehuevi Indian.

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Title Man standing on shore next to a small ferry boat moored along the Colorado River in one of the Mojave canyons, California, 1900-1950

Subject Boats (subject), Chemehuevi Indians (lcsh), Colorado River & Salton Sea (subject), Indians -- Chemehuevi (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), rivers (lcsh), rivers (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), deserts: Mojave Desert (geographic subject), rivers: Colorado River (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900/1950

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 1900/1950

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-m16048

Identifier 3422 (accession number), CHS-3422 (call number), CHS-3422 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15989 (legacy record id), chs-m16048 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13493 (legacy record id), 1-61- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15989

Unique identifier UC121035

Legacy Identifier CHS-3422.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 14.1 in at 300dpi
47.8 cm × 36.0 cm at 300dpi

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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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