California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Workers preparing seeds for market on the C.C. Morse and Co. seed farm, San Benito County, [s.d.]

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Workers preparing seeds for market on the C.C. Morse and Co. seed farm, San Benito County, [s.d.]

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Photograph of workers preparing seeds for market on the C.C. Morse and Co. seed farm, San Benito County, [s.d.]. What appear to be seeds can be seen on top of large, square-shaped pieces of material. A smaller square of this material is visible tot he left. Two workers can be seen spreading seeds on these pieces of material. Several stacks of bags can be seen spread throughout the field, while mountains are visible in the background.

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Title Workers preparing seeds for market on the C.C. Morse and Co. seed farm, San Benito County, [s.d.]

Subject agricultural sites (adlf), Agriculture (lcsh), Agriculture -- Crops -- General (file heading), farms (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Benito (counties), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), 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)

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-m19806

Identifier 36487 (accession number), CHS-36487 (call number), CHS-36487 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19629 (legacy record id), chs-m19806 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19629

Unique identifier UC121811

Legacy Identifier CHS-36487.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
48.3 cm × 34.3 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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