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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of Red Rock Canyon (?) in winter, ca.1940
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View of Red Rock Canyon (?) in winter, ca.1940

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Photograph of a view of Red Rock Canyon (?) in winter, ca.1940. Snow-covered trees and other foliage can be seen across center. Behind the foliage, a shrub-filled mountain with steep rocky sides is visible. At least three peaks formed from eroded rock can be seen on top of the mountain, while snow-covered stones are visible in the foreground. 
Asset Metadata
Title View of Red Rock Canyon (?) in winter, ca.1940 
Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer) 
Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Date Created 1940 
Subject Mountains  (lcsh), Mountains  (adlf), Natural features -- Mountains -- General -- Unidentified  (file heading) 
Tags OAI-PMH Harvest 
Place California (states), Mono (counties), Red Rock Canyon (geographic subject), USA (countries) 
Temporal Subject 1940 
Type images
Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 17 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-m20816 
Identifier 10190 (accession number), CHS-10190 (call number), CHS-10190 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24857 (legacy record id), chs-m20816 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14235 (legacy record id), 1-84-60 (microfiche number), USC (project) 
IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID] 
DM Record ID 24857 
Unique identifier UC131020 
Legacy Identifier CHS-10190.tiff 
Type Image 
Internet Media Type image/tiff
Resolution 20.9 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
53.2 cm × 34.0 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960 
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