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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Four buffalo seen from behind on the Montana plains, 1879
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Four buffalo seen from behind on the Montana plains, 1879
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Description
Photograph of four buffalo seen from behind on the Montana plains, 1879. Four buffalo are pictured moving away from the camera across the plains. Handwriting along the bottom of the image reads "Symbolic of the passing of the monarch of the plains".
Asset Metadata
Title
Four buffalo seen from behind on the Montana plains, 1879
Subject
Animals
(lcsh),
Animals -- Buffalo
(file heading),
Buffalos
(lcsh),
Photographers -- Huffman, L.A.
(file heading),
Plains
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Montana
(states),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1879
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
photographic prints
(aat),
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
1879
Creator
Huffman, L.A. (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-m6371
Identifier
7895 (
accession number
), CHS-7895 (
call number
), CHS-7895 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-6463 (
legacy record id
), chs-m6371 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-6485 (
legacy record id
), 1-74-31 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
6463
Unique identifier
UC121263
Legacy Identifier
CHS-7895.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 12.9 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 32.9 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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