California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Man with an ax standing on the base of a Redwood tree in Henry Cowell Park, ca.1900

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Man with an ax standing on the base of a Redwood tree in Henry Cowell Park, ca.1900

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Photograph of a man with an ax standing on the base of a Redwood tree in Henry Cowell Park, ca.1900. A man wearing overalls and a hat can be seen standing above ground on an indentation on the side of a Redwood trunk. He is visible holding an axe in his extended right hand, while a sign reading "Young Men's Christian Association Group" can be seen on the tree to the left of the man. Multiple trunks extend from the same tree base, while foliage is visible in the background. Two wooden planks can be seen in the foreground.

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Title Man with an ax standing on the base of a Redwood tree in Henry Cowell Park, ca.1900

Subject Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park (Calif.) (naf), Natural features -- Parks -- Henry Cowell Park (file heading), Parks (lcsh), Parks (adlf), Redwood (lcsh), Trees (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), parks: Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park (Calif.) (geographic subject), Santa Cruz (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 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

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-m20927

Identifier 11780 (accession number), CHS-11780 (call number), CHS-11780 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25010 (legacy record id), chs-m20927 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14248 (legacy record id), 1-73-47 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25010

Unique identifier UC130940

Legacy Identifier CHS-11780.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.0 in × 20.3 in at 300dpi
40.8 cm × 51.7 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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