California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Southern Pacific "Cab Forward" steam locomotive coming out of Snow Shed 10, heading West onto Butte Canyon Trestle, ca.1910

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Southern Pacific "Cab Forward" steam locomotive coming out of Snow Shed 10, heading West onto Butte Canyon Trestle, ca.1910

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Photograph of a Southern Pacific "Cab Forward" steam locomotive coming out of Snow Shed 10, heading West onto Butte Canyon Trestle, ca.1910. To the left of center, the locomotive can be seen traveling on tracks elevated over a slope by brick columns. The tracks are visible running from left to right across center. Bushes and shrubs can be seen on a hillside that slopes upwards from the foreground, and forms a rocky peak to the left of center. The trunks of two trees are visible at right in front of the tracks. Photoprint reads: "Snow sheds on M.P.R.R.".; Originally, the image was captioned as "Missouri Pacific Railroad train making its way over a mountain trestle, [s.d.]".

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Title Southern Pacific "Cab Forward" steam locomotive coming out of Snow Shed 10, heading West onto Butte Canyon Trestle, ca.1910

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1910

Subject Mountains (lcsh), Natural features -- Mountains -- General -- Unidentified (file heading), railroad features (adlf), Snowsheds (lcsh), Southern Pacific Railroad Company (naf), Steam locomotives (lcsh), Trestles (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1910

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)

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-m20781

Identifier 46329 (accession number), CHS-46329 (call number), CHS-46329 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24813 (legacy record id), chs-m20781 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14235 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24813

Unique identifier UC130946

Legacy Identifier CHS-46329.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.3 in × 15.6 in at 300dpi
51.6 cm × 39.8 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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