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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Bennett Wells sink during the days of the twenty mule team, [s.d.]
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Bennett Wells sink during the days of the twenty mule team, [s.d.]
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Description
Photograph of the Bennett Wells sink near Death Valley during the days of the twenty mule team, [s.d.]. A dirt road is at center and heads into the distance at left. There are a few tire tracks in the dirt, but not many. The road is lined with an assortment of low desert brush. A tall windmill stands behind the bushes at right, and in the distance behind it is a range of steep mountains whose tops are shrouded by clouds. The twenty mule team was used to haul borax out of Death Valley in the 1880s.
Asset Metadata
Title
Bennett Wells sink during the days of the twenty mule team, [s.d.]
Subject
canyons
(lcsh),
Deserts
(lcsh),
Deserts
(adlf),
Mountains
(lcsh),
Natural features -- Parks -- Death Valley
(file heading),
Parks
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
deserts: Death Valley
(geographic subject),
Inyo
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Type
images
Format
3 photographs : photoprints, photonegatives, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 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)
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20020
Identifier
13068 (
accession number
), CHS-13068 (
call number
), CHS-13068 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-19837 (
legacy record id
), chs-m20020 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14249 (
legacy record id
), 1-27- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
19837
Unique identifier
UC121754
Legacy Identifier
CHS-13068.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.8 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
50.5 cm × 40.7 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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