Young Chemehuevi Indian girl, ca.1900

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Title Young Chemehuevi Indian girl, ca.1900

Description Photograph of a young Chemehuevi Indian girl, ca.1900. Portrait from the waist up. She stands outside in front of the wall of a stick and thatch dwelling. She wears a print dress and a kerchief around her head tied under her chin. Her hands are drawn together in front of the right side of her chest grasping a cloth. She has a ring on the 2nd finger of her right hand. She is looking up and to her left.

Creator James, George Wharton (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1900

Subject Chemehuevi Indians (subject), Chemehuevi Indians (lcsh), Indians (subject), Indians -- Chemehuevi (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), tribal areas (adlf), Women (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

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

Relation References C.E. Guarino auction catalog, July 1983. (references), Kroeber and Heizer. Almost Ancestors -- The First Californians. Sierra Club, p. 88, plate 52. (references)

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-m16094

Identifier 3477 (accession number), CHS-3477 (call number), CHS-3477 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-16035 (legacy record id), chs-m16094 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13493 (legacy record id), 1-164- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16035

Unique identifier UC121030

Legacy Identifier CHS-3477.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.3 in × 18.6 in at 300dpi
36.4 cm × 47.3 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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