California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Man and automobile on the west side of Black Range in Death Valley, ca.1900-1950

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Man and automobile on the west side of Black Range in Death Valley, ca.1900-1950

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Photograph of a man and automobile on the west side of Black Range in Death Valley, ca.1900-1950. An automobile is visible to the left of center in what appears to be a dried creek bed. A man can be seen standing to the right of the automobile with his legs spread and hands in his pockets. Canyon walls slope upwards to the left of the automobile, while vertical rock walls can be seen behind the man. An upwards sloping dirt hill is visible at right. Photoprint reads: "On the west-side of Black Range 2 1/2 miles from the lowest point in the USA, 337 feet below sea level".

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Title Man and automobile on the west side of Black Range in Death Valley, ca.1900-1950

Subject Deserts (lcsh), Deserts (adlf), Indians of North America (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)

Temporal Subject 1900/1950

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 18 x 28 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)

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-m20828

Identifier 14223 (accession number), CHS-14223 (call number), CHS-14223 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24878 (legacy record id), chs-m20828 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14249 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24878

Unique identifier UC130895

Legacy Identifier CHS-14223.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 22.8 in × 14.8 in at 300dpi
58.0 cm × 37.6 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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