View of Mount Whitney, CA, [s.d.]

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Photograph of a view of Mount Whitney, CA, [s.d.]. Wotan's Throne is in the center left of the image and Mount Whitney is in the center right of the image. Mountain sides can be seen sloping upwards at left and right, while tall pine trees are visible growing in the resulting crevice between the two slopes from bottom left towards center. Rock formations and peaks are visible on top of the mountains at left and in the background. Trees can be seen on the sides of the mountains throughout, while boulders can be seen in the extreme right foreground. Originally, the image was captioned as "Observatory Peak from Mount Lowe [Wilson?], Altadena, [s.d.]".

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Title View of Mount Whitney, CA, [s.d.]

Subject Mountains (lcsh), Mountains (adlf), Natural features -- Mountains -- General -- Unidentified (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Inyo (counties), mountain ranges: Sierra Nevada (geographic subject), mountains: Mount Whitney (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 9 x 12 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)

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-m20760

Identifier 46312 (accession number), CHS-46312 (call number), CHS-46312 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24781 (legacy record id), chs-m20760 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14235 (legacy record id), 84-1-2251 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24781

Unique identifier UC131025

Legacy Identifier CHS-46312.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 14.4 in at 300dpi
47.8 cm × 36.6 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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