Intake pier in the Salton Sea, eight miles below Yuma, 1906

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Photograph of an intake pier in the Salton Sea, eight miles below Yuma, 1906. What appears to be parallel train trestles can be seen standing in the water on the left with the skeletal, wooden pier standing parallel on the right. Logs and discarded debris float on the surface of the water between them and boxes are piled on the trestles further back. Three barge-mounted pile drivers stand at their ends along a dirt hill which extends through the water across the background. A fourth pile driver stands on a small dock in the water on the right with a large, lightly-colored steamboat visible behind it. In the extreme background, the Pilot Knob mountain can be seen. ; Although the title reads "eight mile below Yuma", the south-eastern shore of Salton Sea is about 140 miles north-west of Yuma, AZ.

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Title Intake pier in the Salton Sea, eight miles below Yuma, 1906

Subject Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Natural features -- Rivers -- Colorado River (file heading), piers (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), lakes: Salton Sea (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1906

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 16 x 21cm. (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 1906

Creator James, George Wharton (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-m20985

Identifier 46399 (accession number), CHS-46399 (call number), CHS-46399 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25098 (legacy record id), chs-m20985 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14306 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25098

Unique identifier UC131475

Legacy Identifier CHS-46399.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 12.8 in at 300dpi
43.2 cm × 32.5 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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